Title: With good intentions?
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Dissenters, Progressivism (United States politics)
Places: United States
LC classification: HN57 .K365 1998