With good intentions?
Subtitle: reflections on the myth of progress in America
By: Bill Kauffman.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Dissenters -- United States.; Progressivism (United States politics)
Description: Kauffman's perspective on progress in America - from the point of view of those who lost - revives forgotten figures and reinvigorates dormant causes as he examines the characters and arguments from six critical battles that forever altered the American landscape: the debates over child labor, school consolidation, women's suffrage, the back-to-the-land movement, "good roads" and the Interstate Highway System, and a standing army.

The integration of these subjects and the presentation of the anti-Progress case as a coherent political tendency encompassing several issues and many years is unprecedented. With wit, passion, and an arsenal of long-neglected sources, Kauffman measures the cost of progress in 20th-century America and exposes the elaborate plans behind seemingly "inevitable" reforms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-118) and index.