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100 1 $aNugent, Walter T. K.
245 10$aProgressivism :$ba very short introduction /$cWalter Nugent.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2010.
300 $a144 p. :$bill. ;$c18 cm.
490 1 $aVery short introductions ;$v223.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe predicament : the discontents of the Gilded Age -- Thecrisis of the nineties, 1889-1901 -- Progressivism takes shape, 1901-1908 -- The high tide of progressivism, 1908-1917 -- Calamities : World War I and the flu epidemic, 1917-1919 -- Ebb tide, 1919-1921.
520 1 $a"This Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America - its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890suntil the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a responseto the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flauntedtheir wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressivenational leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions in urban slums,instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote, and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal." "Nugent shows that the progressives - with the glaring exception of race relations - shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed. Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own time."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0$aProgressivism (United States politics)$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0$aProgressivism (United States politics)$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0$aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1865-1933.
830 0$aVery short introductions ;$v223.