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Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy : a life / Jean Bethke Elshtain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
- Addams, Jane.
- Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Women social workers.
- United States.
- Women social workers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- This major new interpretive biography--by one of America's foremost public intellectuals--eloquently examines Jane Addams's cultural and political influence on her time and ours. 9 halftones.
- Contents:
- Hull-House Firsts xix
- Preface: Interpreting a Life xxi
- Introduction: Looking for Jane Addams's America 1
- 1 The Snare of Preparation 15
- 2 One Pilgrim's Progress 33
- 3 Imagining Hull-House 65
- 4 The Family Claim and the Social Claim 89
- 5 Compassion Without Condescension: The Child and the City 119
- 6 Woman's Remembering Heart 149
- 7 Life Has Marked Us with Its Slow Stain: The War at Home 181
- 8 Solidarity Which Will Not Waver: Jane Addams in War and Peace 211
- Afterword: Return to Cedarville 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465019129
- OCLC:
- 47849464
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