1st Edition
Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition
Edited By Louis Filler
Copyright 1996
476 Pages
by
Routledge
476 Pages
by
Routledge
952 Pages
by
Routledge
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Muckraking and progressivism have always marched arm-in-arm, cutting a wide path through modern American history. Originally published as Appointment at Armageddon , Filler's book is a vital contribution in understanding the intrinsic dynamic of reform in American life. It extracts from the issues that fostered progressivism and muckraking an essence that illuminates contemporary debate.... Read more
I: Past and Present; Great Expectations; Vehicles for Change; Liberal Syndrome: The Politics of Hope; The People’s Press; “Common Scold”; William Lyon Mackenzie; Moments of Truth: Progressivism and War; II: Industry; The Machine in the Garden; Public Service and the Scapegoat; Panaceas; The Goo Goos; Josephine Shaw Lowell; Tom Watson and the Negroes; Labor, Immigrants, and Reform; Man of Action, Man of Words; The Old Populism; III: Progressivism; Imperialism; Theo; The New Time; The New Journalism; Writer-Reformers; Issues; Romance and Reality; Progressives; Woodrow Wilson; High Noon; Consolidations; Armageddon; Shadows Forward; Progress and Progressivism
Biography
Louis Filler
