With good intentions?
reflections on the myth of progress in America
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Word Count
31,000 words, Guess
Page Count
124 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL351680M
- ISBN-100275962709
- OCLC Control Number98011125
- OCLC Control Number38288683
- OCLC Control Numberwithgoodintentio0000kauf
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- Library of Congress Control Number98011125
- Goodreads755694
- LibraryThing1106062
Classifications
- DDC303.48/4
- LCCHN57 .K365 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.
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