Civic passions : seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us) / Cecelia Tichi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics).

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Social reformers--United States--Biography.

Social reformers.

Leadership--United States--Case studies.

Leadership.

Social problems--United States--History--19th century.

Social problems.

Social problems--United States--History--20th century.

United States--History--1865-1921--Biography.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States--then, as now--was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia. Dr

Contents:

The dangerous trades

The Pittsburgh survey

Justice, not pity

The wages of work

Citizen

The social gospel

Lynching in all its phases

Progressive encore? a postscript.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-342-4

979-88-908835-2-0

1-4696-0538-4

0-8078-9869-4

OCLC:

489150987