America Transformed : The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pestritto, Ronald J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics)--History.

Progressivism (United States politics).

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Encounter Books

Summary:

"The America of the modern administrative state is not the America of the original Constitution. This transformation comes not only from the ordinary course of historical change and development, but also from a radical, new philosophy of government that was imported into the American political tradition by the Progressives of the late nineteenth century. The new thinking about the principles of government - and open hostility to the American Constitution - led to a host of concrete changes that Progressives proposed, and on occasion consummated, for American political institutions. Government today reKects these original Progressive innovations, even if they are often unrecognized as such because they have become ingrained for so long in American political culture. This book shows the nature of these changes - both in principles and in the nuts and bolts of governing; it also shows how progressivism was at least at the root of critical developments subsequent to the Progressive Era in recent American political history - how it was different than the New Deal, the liberalism of the 1960s, and today's liberalism, but also how these subsequent developments could not have transpired without the ground laid by the original Progressives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : progressivism's enduring relevance

A primer on progressivism and the progressive era

Original liberalism vs. progressive liberalism

Roosevelt, Wilson, and the democratic theory of national progressivism

American progressivism and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln

Making the state into a god : American progressivism and the social gospel

Realism and idealism in progressive foreign policy : the case of Woodrow Wilson

The progressive origins of the administrative state

Progressivism and the law in today's administrative state

Progressivism in state and local government

Postscript.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Pestritto, Ronald J., 1968- America transformed

ISBN:

9781641771696

1641771690