America transformed : the rise and legacy of American progressivism / Ronald J. Pestritto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pestritto, Ronald J., author.

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 (320 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, [2023]

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 governmentand open hostility to the American Constitutionled to a host of concrete changes in American political institutions. Our government today reflects these original Progressive innovations, even if they are often unrecognized as such because they have become ingrained 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 often at the root of critical developments subsequent to the Progressive Era in more recent American political historyhow it was different than the New Deal, the liberalism of the 1960s, and todays liberalism, but also how these subsequent developments could not have transpired without the ground laid by the original Progressives.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Progressivism’s Enduring Relevance

Part I: Progressive First Principles

Chapter One: A Primer on Progressivism and the Progressive Era

Chapter Two: Original Liberalism vs. Progressive Liberalism

Chapter Three: Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Democratic Theory of National Progressivism

Part II: Progressivism in American Political Development

Chapter Four: American Progressivism and the Legacy of Abraham Lincoln

Chapter Five: Making the State into a God: American Progressivism and the Social Gospel

Chapter Six: Realism and Idealism in Progressive Foreign Policy: The Case of Woodrow Wilson

Part III: Progressivism and Government Today

Chapter Seven: The Progressive Origins of the Administrative State

Chapter Eight: Progressivism and the Law in Today’s Administrative State

Chapter Nine: Progressivism in State and Local Government

Postscript

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ISBN:

9781641773584

1641773588

OCLC:

1192304125