The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. - Softcover

Hofstadter, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394700953 ISBN 13: 9780394700953

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1960

Synopsis

This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Review:

"Professor Hofstadter has written a superb book ... The Age of Reform entitles Hofstadter to rank with C. Vann Woodward as a master of creative synthesis, as an interpreter of the past who can add to cold data an emphatic insight that transforms history from a book of the dead into a chronicle of life."-- American Political Science Review

About the Author:

Born in 1916, Richard Hofstadter was one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals of the 20th century. His works include The Age of Reform, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915, The American Political Tradition, and others. He was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. He died in 1970.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1960
• ISBN 10: 0394700953
• ISBN 13: 9780394700953
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352