| The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900â "1920 Contributor(s): Rauchway, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231121474 ISBN-13: 9780231121477 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 00045170 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.91" W x 8.87" (0.77 lbs) 322 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rauchway, Eric: - Eric Rauchway is professor of History at University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace (Basic Books 2015) and The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920 (Columbia University Press, 2001). |