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The refuge of affections : family and American reform politics, 1900-1920 / Eric Rauchway.
LIBRA HN57 .R28 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rauchway, Eric.
- Series:
- Contemporary American history series
- Columbia studies in contemporary American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- United States.
- Families--United States--History.
- Families.
- History.
- Progressivism (United States politics).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- The Progressives -- those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research -- have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives -- from the challenges of forming a family.
- Contents:
- 1. Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight 31
- 2. Mary Ritter and Charles Beard 61
- 3. Lucy Sprague and Wesley Clair Mitchell 91
- 4. War and the Progressive Family 123
- 5. The Narrative of Progress versus the Logic of Events 155
- Epilogue: The Rise and Fall of The Rise of American Civilization; or, A Further Parable on the Narrative of Progress and the Logic of Events 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231121466
- 0231121474
- OCLC:
- 44914199
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