
The Age of Reform
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This book is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The Age of Reform 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.
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Agrarian Myth and Commercial Realities
- 1 The Yeoman and the Myth
- 2 The Farmer and the Realities
- 3 The Frontier or the Market?
- II. The Folklore of Populism
- 1 The Two Nations
- 2 History as Conspiracy
- 3 The Spirit Militant
- III. From Pathos to Parity
- 1 Success Through Failure
- 2 The Golden Age and After
- 3 The Vanishing Hayseed
- IV. The Status Revolution and Progressive Leaders
- 1 The Plutocracy and the Mugwump Type
- 2 The Alienation of the Professionals
- 3 From The Mugwump to the Progressive
- V. The Progressive Impulse
- 1 The Urban Scene
- 2 Muckraking: The Revolution in Journalism
- 3 Reality and Responsibility
- VI. The Struggle over Organization
- 1 Organization and the Individual
- 2 The State and the Trusts
- 3 The Citizen and the Machine
- VII. From Progressivism to the New Deal
- 1 Progressivism and War
- 2 Entr'acte
- 3 The New Departure
- 4 The New Opportunism
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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