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The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920

The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920

Rauchway, Eric

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Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0231121474
ISBN13: 9780231121477
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Mar 29 2001
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.87
Language: English

The Progressives--those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research--have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives--from the challenges of forming a family.

Following the lives and careers of Charles and Mary Beard, Wesley Clair and Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Willard and Dorothy Straight, the book moves from the plains of the Midwest to the plains of Manchuria, from the trade-union halls of industrial Britain to the editorial offices of the New Republic in Manhattan. Rauchway argues that parenting was a kind of elitism that fulfilled itself when it undid itself, and this vision of familial responsibility underlay Progressive approaches to foreign policy, economics, social policy, and education.

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