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A fierce discontent : the rise and fall of the Progressive movement in America, 1870-1920 /

"In a nation where the gap between rich and poor consistently threatens to erase the middle class, the American Progressive Era, spanning the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence to start its own revolution. Before the P...

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Main Author: McGerr, Michael E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, Eng. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects and Genres:
Progressivism (United States politics) > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Sign of friction": portrait of America at century's end
  • The radical center
  • Transforming Americans
  • Ending class conflict
  • Controlling big business
  • The shield of segregation
  • The promise of liberation
  • The pursuit of pleasure
  • The price of victory.

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