The Age of Reform
This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they...
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This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394700953 (0394700953)
Publish date: February 12th 1960
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Politics,
Philosophy,
American History,
19th Century
Hofstadter admits reform would have been impossible “without the impetus given by certain social grievances,” but he prefers to separate out a more-or-less cultural spirit of progressivism, which he says was “not nearly so much the movement of any social class,” as “a rather widespread and remarkabl...
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