Title: Civic passions : seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us) /
Authors: Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics); Political activists United States Biography; Social reformers United States Biography; Leadership United States Case studies; Social problems United States History; Social problems United States History; United States History Biography.; United States Politics and government; United States Social conditions
Abstract: "Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States - then, as now - was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia."
Contents: Two Gilded Ages : a preface -- Danger and opportunity : an introduction -- Alice Hamilton, M.D. : the dangerous trades -- John R. Commons : the Pittsburgh survey -- Julia Lathrop : justice, not pity -- Florence Kelley : the wages of work -- Louis D. Brandeis : citizen -- Walter Rauschenbusch : the social gospel -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : lynching in all its phases -- Progressive encore? A postscript.