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Cracks in the Foundation: Frederick T. Gates, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the China Medical Board
John S. Baick
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08 November 2010, pp. 59-89
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As his lengthy career neared an end, Rockefeller advisor Frederick T. Gates made a bold and unsuccessful proposal to the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1924, asking them to invest $265 million in the China Medical Board. Founded in 1914, the China Medical Board (CMB) was one of the earliest ventures of the Rockefeller Foundation, the most prominent of the Progressive Era's giant secular philanthropic foundations. The CMB was also the last major philanthropic effort by Gates, the man most responsible for shifting the Rockefellers from denominational charity to international philanthropy. After a decade in existence, the CMB had not come close to realizing the hopes of its founder. Only with this massive, unprecedented infusion of capital, Gates explained, could his dream “spring into existence full panoplied.” This dream was never fully realized because of its astonishingly grandiose scale and complexity: its goal was to make Chinese medical care the finest in the world, and in the process close the chasm that he saw between denominational Christianity and the needs of the modern world. Although the story of the China Medical Board is the story of a failed vision, it also affords a glimpse of the cracks at the base of modern American philanthropy.

Class Matters - Robert D. Johnston The Radical Middle Class: Populist. Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxiii + 394 pp. Preface, illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, and index. $35.00 (clodi), ISBN 0-691-09668-6.
Priscilla Murolo
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08 November 2010, pp. 407-409
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Negotiating their Place: Two Perspectives on American Catholics in the Progressive Era - Deirdre M. Moloney American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Sonai Reform in the Progressive Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 276 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2660-X; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4986-3. - Mary Lethert Wingerd. Claiming the City: Politics, Faith and the Power of Place in St. Paul. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xiii + 326 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes and index, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-3936-1.
Jeanne Petit
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08 November 2010, pp. 295-300
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Diplomatic Traditions that Echo across a Century - Robert E. Hannigan, The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898–1917. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xiii + 271 pp. Notes and index, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3666-1. - Lloyd E. Ambrosius, Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002. 181 pp. Notes and index, $75.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-4039-6008-9; $24.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-4039-6009-7.
Jack L. Hammersmith
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08 November 2010, pp. 205-210
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Paying for Progressivism - R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 168 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-7054-2.
Thomas R. Pegram
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08 November 2010, pp. 211-214
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Speaking of Progress: the Rhetoric of Reform in the Progressive Era - Michael J. Hogan, editor. Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era: Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume Six. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 700 pp. Introduction, notes, index, $189.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-87013-637-2. - Marston Ward and Kessler Scott, producers. In Their Own Voices, The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1908 and 1912. The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Marston Records, USA, 2000. 2 CDs, 43 pp. Photos and text, $35.98.
Malcolm Magee
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08 November 2010, pp. 90-94
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The Rest of the Story: Female Leadership in Progressive Education - Alan R. Sadovnik, and Susan F. Semel Eds, Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders during the Progressive Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xx + 268 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, and index, $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-3122-3297-7; 23.95 (paper), ISBN 0-3122-9502-2.
Lynne M. Getz
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08 November 2010, pp. 301-303
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Hearts and Minds: Re-envisioning Chicago - Maureen A. Flanagan Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiv + 319 pp. Introduction, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-09539-6.
Joanne L. Goodwin
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08 November 2010, pp. 411-413
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Scrutinizing the Immigrant Working Class - Amy L. Fairchild Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv + 385 pp. Illustrations, charts, appendices, notes, index. $48.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-7080-1.
Alexandra Minna Stern
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08 November 2010, pp. 415-417
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Changing of the Guard: The Rise of Ethnic Control and Values in Boston's Relief - Susan Traverso. Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. xiii + 163 pp. Introduction, notes and index, $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-55849-378-6.
Dorothy M. Brown
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08 November 2010, pp. 305-307
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Tramping for Meaning: Labor History Moves West - Thomas Clark Clark. Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State of California, 1890–1925. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 297 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, and index, $39 95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8143-3043-6.
Gordon Morris Bakken
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08 November 2010, pp. 215-218
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Legislating Christian Morality - Gaines M. Foster Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 318pp. Introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography of works cited, index, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2697-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5366-6.
Alison M. Parker
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08 November 2010, pp. 95-98
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Hip Cultural Analysis — Light on Jargon - Janet M. Davis The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvii + 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index, $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5399-2.
Thomas M. Spencer
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08 November 2010, pp. 99-101
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From Economic Man to Social Self - Jeffrey Sklansky. The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 313 pp. Introduction, notes, and index, ISBN 0-8078-5398-4
Gillis J. Harp
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08 November 2010, pp. 309-311
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Paying for Progressivism - R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 168 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-7054-2.

Changing of the Guard: The Rise of Ethnic Control and Values in Boston's Relief - Susan Traverso. Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. xiii + 163 pp. Introduction, notes and index, $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-55849-378-6.

Tramping for Meaning: Labor History Moves West - Thomas Clark Clark. Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State of California, 1890–1925. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 297 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, and index, $39 95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8143-3043-6.

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Hip Cultural Analysis — Light on Jargon - Janet M. Davis The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvii + 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index, $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5399-2.

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From Economic Man to Social Self - Jeffrey Sklansky. The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 313 pp. Introduction, notes, and index, ISBN 0-8078-5398-4

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