Civic passions
Subtitle: seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us)
By: Cecelia Tichi.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780807833001
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 -- 19th century; Social problems -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- 1865-1921 -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Description: "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."

"Civic Passions is a collection of minibiographies, and a user's manual on how a generation of social reformers can turn peril into progress with fresh, workable ideas. Together, these narratives of advocacy provide a stunning precedent of progressive action and show how citizen-activists can engage the problems of the age in imaginative ways. While offering useful models to encourage the nation in a newly progressive direction, Civic Passions reminds us that one determined individual can make a difference."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Two Gilded Ages : a preface; title: Danger and opportunity : an introduction; title: Alice Hamilton, M.D. : the dangerous trades; title: John R. Commons : the Pittsburgh survey; title: Julia Lathrop : justice, not pity; title: Florence Kelley : the wages of work; title: Louis D. Brandeis : citizen; title: Walter Rauschenbusch : the social Gospel; title: Ida B. Wells-Barnett : lynching in all its phases; title: Progressive encore? A postscript.