The progressives.
Series: The American heritage series
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics) -- Collections; Social reformers -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc
Notes: "Excerpts from ... autobiographies and reminiscences."
--Theodore Roosevelt holds to the rule of reason, from Autobiography.--Ida Tarbell discovers "The golden rule in industry" from All in a day's work.--Frederic Howe befriends the Irish, from The confessions of a reformer.--Josephus Daniels defends the color line, from Editor in politics.--Robert La Follette curbs the interests, from La Follette's autobiography.--George Norris unhorses an old guard, from Fighting liberal.--William Prendergast goes Bull Moose, from Reminiscences, Columbia University Oral History Collection.--Jane Addams stands at Armageddon, from McClure's.--Theodore Roosevelt sums it up, from The outlook.--Jacob Riis asserts his patriotism, from The making of an American.--Mary Simkhovitch musters a settlement house, from Neighborhood.--Roger Baldwin defends civil liberties and resists the draft, from Reminiscences, Columbia University Oral History Collection.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Selected bibliography (p. xxxv-xxxvii); title: Vernon Louis Parrington recalls the spirit of an age, from Main currents of American thought.; title: Richard Ely inaugurates the new economics, from Ground under our feet.; title: W. E. B. Du Bois proposes a science of equality, from Dusk of dawn.; title: Jane Addams weighs the burdens of the poor, from Twenty years at Hull House.; title: Margaret Sanger takes up the fight for birth control, from My fight for birth control.; title: Rabbi Stephen Wise sides with labor, from The challenging years.; title: Monsignor John Ryan calls for a living wage, from Social doctrine in action.; title: The Reverend Washington Gladden shuns tainted money, from Recollections.; title: Ray Stannard Baker holds on to his muckrake, from American chronicle.