Fierce Discontent The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

Name: Fierce Discontent The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
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ISBN: 9780195183658

ISBN-10: 0195183657

ISBN-13: 9780195183658

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael McGerr

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With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with tools that had changed very little for centuries. Just three decades later, America was utterly transformed into a diverse, urban, affluent, leisure-obsessed, teeming multitude. This explosive change was accompanied by extraordinary public-spiritedness as reformers--frightened by class conflict…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Progressive Opportunity



""Signs of Friction"": Portrait of America at Century's End



The Radical Center



Progressive Battles



TRansforming Americans



Ending Class Conflict



Controlling Big Business



The Shield of Segregation



Disturbance and Defeat



The Promise of Liberation



The Pursuit of Pleasure



The Price of Victory


Conclusion


Notes


Index