Title The refuge of affections : family and American reform politics, 1900-1920 / Eric Rauchway.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
	©2001

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 237 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Columbia studies in contemporary American history
	Columbia studies in contemporary American history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
Summary	The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives-from the challenges of forming a family. Following the lives and careers of Charles and Mary Beard, Wesley Clair and Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Willard and Dorothy Straight, the book moves from the plains of.
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Subject	Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
	Social reformers.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Families -- United States.
	Families.
	Progressivism (United States politics)
	Progressivism (United States politics)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Rauchway, Eric. Refuge of affections. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001 0231121466 (DLC) 00045170 (OCoLC)44914199
ISBN	0231506163 (electronic book)
	9780231506168 (electronic book)