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Desperately Seeking the Progressives - Michael McGerr. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. New York: The Free Press, 2003. xvi + 395 pp. Preface, notes, and index. $30 (cloth), ISBN 0-684-85975-0.
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Michael McGerr. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. New York: The Free Press, 2003. xvi + 395 pp. Preface, notes, and index. $30 (cloth), ISBN 0-684-85975-0.
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1 Buenker, John, Urban Uberalism and Progressive Reform (New York, 1973)Google Scholar ; Connolly, James, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (Cambridge, MA, 1998)Google Scholar ; and Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill, 1996).Google Scholar The bibliography of the middle-class interpretation of the Progressive Era is voluminous and well-known to readers of this journal. The significant aspect of it to be pointed out here is the difficulty with defining what constituted the middle class. The variations range from status-seeking old middle class, to order-seeking new professional middle class, to efficiency-minded middle-class businessmen, t o educated middle-class women, to the more encompassing “middling classes” of Robert Johnston's The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland Oregon (Princeton, 2003)Google Scholar.
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