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Author Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Title Civic passions : seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us) / Cecelia Tichi
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) : illustrations
Contents Two Gilded Ages : a preface -- Danger and opportunity : an introduction -- Alice Hamilton, M.D. : the dangerous trades -- John R. Commons : the Pittsburgh survey -- Julia Lathrop : justice, not pity -- Florence Kelley : the wages of work -- Louis D. Brandeis : citizen -- Walter Rauschenbusch : the social gospel -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : lynching in all its phases -- Progressive encore? A postscript
Summary Tichi examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history, starting from the late 19th century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse. She brings 7 iconoclastic individuals from the Gilded Age back to life to show how citizen-activists can engage the problems of the age in imaginative ways. This is a provocative and powerfully written social history, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-373) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Leadership
Political activists
Politics and government
Progressivism (United States politics)
Social conditions
Social problems
Social reformers
SUBJECT United States -- History -- 1865-1921 -- Biography
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140446
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Case studies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807898697
0807898694
9781469605388
1469605384