Author: Samuel Posin JacobsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Walter Weyl and the Progressive Mind
Author: Samuel Posin JacobsWalter Weyl
Author: Farewell to Reform
Author: John ChamberlainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Farewell to Reform
Author: John ChamberlainPublisher: Chicago : Quadrangle Books, 932.
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Category : Free enterprise
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Politics and Progress
Author: Dennis J. MahoneyPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739106563
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Mahoney describes the emergence of American political science as a separate academic discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the American Political Science Association in 1903. His book, a testament to the integrity of American political science, chronicles its intellectual and cultural development.
The Origins of the Progressive Mind in the United States
Author: Melvyn Bernard StokesPublisher:
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Category : Progressivism (United States politics)
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State
Author: Marc StearsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198296762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Examining the close relationship between leading groups of British socialists and American progressives in the first three decades of the 20th century, this book employs new methods of conceptual and institutional analysis.
The Divided Mind of American Liberalism
Author: James R. HurtgenPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739103203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Divided Mind of American Liberalism reveals the crisis at the heart of modern American liberalism. James Hurtgen's historical narrative traces the liberal movement through three periods of reform: the progressive movement, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Drawing on the views of political activists, presidents, and theorists the work examines the tensions that resulted in the ideological disunion--based on deep and lasting divisions over the desirability of centralized political power--of the communitarian "decentralists" and individualist "modernist" wings of the liberal movement. It documents how a "modernist" willingness to accept properly reformed, nationally exercised power held sway through much of the century only to be supplanted in the sixties and early seventies by "decentralists," champions of local government as the ideal political unit. This superb study demonstrates the central role liberalism has played in modern American political development and lays bare a liberal movement thrown into crisis by competing theories of social order.
Progressive Historians
Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307809609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political battles of the Progressive era, provided the Progressive movement with a usable past and the American liberal mind with a historical tradition. The Progressive Historians is at once a critique of historical thought during this decisive period of American development and an account of how these three writers led American historians into the controversial political world of the twentieth century. Turner, in developing his idea that American democracy is the outcome of the experience of frontier expansion and the settlement of the West, introduced his fellow historians to a set of new concepts and methods, and in doing so doing re-drew the guidelines of American historiography. Beard insisted upon the elitist origins of the Constitution, crusaded for the economic interpretation of history, and ultimately staked his historical reputation on an isolationist view of recent American foreign policy. Parrington emphasized the moral and social functions of literature, and read the history of literature as a history of the national political mind. In recent years, the tide has run against the Progressive historians, as one specialist after another has taken issue with their interpretations. The movement of contemporary historical thought has led to a rediscovery of the complexity of the American past. Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their insights.
Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
Author: Leon FinkPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674713901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The long-standing dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion and that of the working masses, is the focus of Leon Fink's penetrating book, the first social history of the progressive thinker caught in the middle of American political culture.