Representative Americans Populists and Progressives

Name: Representative Americans Populists and Progressives
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ISBN: 9780742521711

ISBN-10: 0742521710

ISBN-13: 9780742521711

Edition: 2004

Authors: Norman K. Risjord

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Risjord offers readers an glimpse into the world of the turn of the 20th century in this collection of biographies that cover the political, social & cultural dimensions of the period from 1890-1920.

Book details

List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Progress, poverty, and populists



John D. Rockefeller : robber baron or industrial pioneer?



Mother Jones : "we have nothing to lose but our chains"



William Graham Sumner vs. Lester Frank Ward : the intellectual battleground



William A. Peffer : prairie populist



Architects of empire



Alfred Thayer Mahan : apostle of sea power



Richard Harding Davis : the romantic as journalist



John Hay : "echoes of glory and a legacy of duty"



Progressives



Louis D. Brandeis : the "people's lawyer"



Carrie Chapman Catt : progressivism and women's suffrage



John Muir : nature's evangelist



William E. Burghardt DuBois : the African-American's dilemma



Margaret Sanger : crusade for birth control