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The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900--1920 (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History)by Eric Rauchway
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Progressives — those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research — have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives — from the challenges of forming a family. Review:"Every scholar grappling with the elusive and complicated Progressive Era should read this graceful essay on these three quintessentially progressive families. In prose as nuanced as the fin-de-siècle itself, Rauchway explores the lives of these women and men who engendered a potent ideology of political reform by using the family as a vessel of political and social change. Rauchway marries group biography to gender studies in his intelligent, sensitive, and eloquent portraits of these Progressive intellectuals." Mina Carson, Oregon State University Synopsis:The Progressives — those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research — have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives — from the challenges of forming a family. Following the lives and careers of Charles and Mary Beard, Wesley Clair and Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Willard and Dorothy Straight, the book moves from the plains of the Midwest to the plains of Manchuria, from the trade-union halls of industrial Britain to the editorial offices of the New Republic in Manhattan. Rauchway argues that parenting was a kind of elitism that fulfilled itself when it undid itself, and this vision of familial responsibility underlay Progressive approaches to foreign policy, economics, social policy, and education. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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