Confessions of a Reformer

Name: Confessions of a Reformer
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ISBN: 9780873383615

ISBN-10: 0873383613

ISBN-13: 9780873383615

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Frederic C. Howe, James E. Richardson

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Frederic C. Howe lived in interesting times. By education (at Johns Hopkins in the early 1890s) and instinct he was a progressive, in the best sense of that term. From the Cleveland of Tom Johnson to the Washington of FDR he "unlearned" his early predjudices and given values, yet "under the ruins" of it all he kept his idealism.Howe's autobiographical record was originally published in 1925. Out of print for some time, this book is now available in a paperback reprint, offering a new introduction by James F. Richardson, professor of history and urban studies at the University of Akron. Richardson's helpful analysis covers Howe's distinguished career in public life and evaluates his…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Publication date: 6/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Introduction



Beginning



Meadville, Pennsylvania



Johns Hopkins



Woodrow Wilson-virginian



Journalism



The Poor Man's Club



My Friends the Irish



The Law



Uplifting



Beer and Skittles



I Enter Politics



A Rude Awakening



A Ten Years' War



Tom Johnson



Mark Hanna



Making Laws at Columbus



I Throw Away Ballast



Recasting My Beliefs



Pre-War Radicals



Conflict and Compromise



Wealth without Labor



Single-Taxing a City



Leisure



The People's Institute



Ellis Island



Business as Usual



Hysteria



Liberals and the War



Paris and the World



Woodrow Wilson at Paris



Unlearning



Working with Labor



Beginning Again


Index