Introduction Part I: The Problem: State and Society, 1890s-1912 Chapter 1. Gilded Age Liberty Chapter 2. New Workers, New Women Chapter 3. The Social Question Part II: Confronting the Issues, 1913-1924 Chapter 4. Progressive Statecraft Chapter 5. The Dynamics of Total War Chapter 6. Response to Revolution Chapter 7. Restoration by Repression Part III: The Resolution, 1925-1938 Chapter 8. The New Era of Corporate Capitalism Chapter 9. Managing the Depression: Hoover and Roosevelt Chapter 10. Rendezvous with Destiny Conclusion Abbreviations Selected Bibliography Notes Index
Of the varieties of histories of the welfare state, this is now, by far, the best. It offers both a survey and a powerful, original interpretation. It is the first general book to take the question of gender seriously. -- Linda Gordon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Alan Dawley was Professor of History, The College of New Jersey.
Historians have been calling for years for syntheses of the new
scholarship of the last generation. Dawley has now provided one… He
dusts democracy off and places it back where it belongs, at the
center of the story… His argument helps restore balance to our
conception of ‘progressivism’ and to our understanding of the
larger liberal world of which, he reminds us, democratic impulses
were once (and we must hope remain) a vital part.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A superb book, much the best general account of twentieth-century
American history to have been published in many years. It seems to
be a model of the new approaches to American history, especially
for the ways in which it combines social and political history.
Dawley does more to make sense of the general theme of social
justice, the defining theme of the past couple of generations, than
anyone else. The book is superbly well written and effectively
organized. It should become the leading college text in its
subject, and I hope that it will also find a large general
audience, for it will be of real interest to the learned
public.
*Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies*
Of the varieties of histories of the welfare state, this is now, by
far, the best. It offers both a survey and a powerful, original
interpretation. It is the first general book to take the question
of gender seriously.
*Linda Gordon, University of Wisconsin–Madison*
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