The Age of Reform
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307809643 (0307809641)
Publish date: December 21st 2011
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...