Progressive Development of Bull Run
Author | : Portland (Or.). Water Bureau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Bull Run River |
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Author | : Portland (Or.). Water Bureau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Bull Run River |
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Author | : United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Forest reserves |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Bull Run Nature Reserve (Or.) |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Production and Supply |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1318 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Coal leases |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Sir William Howard Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 |
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Author | : Walter Nugent |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199746559 |
After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions in urban slums, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote, and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal. Nugent shows that the progressives--with the glaring exception of race relations--shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed. Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own time. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Author | : Paul J. Schwind |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Michael Wolraich |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137438088 |
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them "radicals," and "fanatics." They called themselves Progressives. President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette's confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with the conservative House Speaker, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette's crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette's militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative. Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich's riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America's history.