A fierce discontent : the rise and fall of the Progressive movement in America, 1870-1920
"In a nation where the gap between rich and poor consistently threatens to erase the middle class, the American Progressive Era, spanning the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with tools that had changed very little for centuries. Just three decades later, America was transformed into a diverse, urban, affluent, leisure-obsessed, teeming multitude. This explosive change was accompanied by extraordinary public-spiritedness as reformers - frightened by class conflict and the changes in gender relations - abandoned their traditional faith in individualism and embarked on a crusade to remake other Americans in their own image. Their ambitious battles changed the face of American culture and politics forever. A Fierce Discontent recreates the excitement and color of this turbulent time"--Cubierta
History
xvi, 395 páginas, 8 páginas no numeradas de láminas : ilustraciones, retratos, fotografías ; 24 cm
9780195183658, 0195183657
1007385100
"Sign of friction": portrait of America at century's end
The radical center
Transforming Americans
Ending class conflict
Controlling big business
The shield of segregation
The promise of liberation
The pursuit of pleasure
The price of victory
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