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HOFSTADTER, RICHARD Progressive Movement 1900-1915
Spectrum Book, 1963. Trade Paperback. Good. Cover edge wear & creasing, small sticker on front cover, pages & covers wrinkled, smudging on page ridges, spine creased, heavy staining on back cover, light page toning. "In the United States, the Progressive Era was a period of reform which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s. Progressives strongly opposed waste and corruption, seeking change in regard to worker's rights and protection of the ordinary citizen in general. Initially the movement was successful at local level, and then it progressed to state and gradually national.[2] The reformers (and their opponents) were predominantly members of the middle class. Most were well educated white Protestants who lived in the cities. Catholics, Jews and African Americans had their own versions of the Progressive Movement, (some of them were more like responses to the movement than alternative versions) led by the likes of George Cardinal Mundelein and Booker T. Washington. The Progressives pushed for social justice, general equality and public safety, but there were contradictions within the movement, especially regarding race. Almost all major politicians declared their adherence to some progressive measures. In politics the most prominent national figures were the Republican politicians Theodore Roosevelt and Robert LaFollette, Sr. and Democratic politicians William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson." -- Wikipedia.
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