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The Age of Reform Mass Market Paperback – February 12, 1960

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. 

The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
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    February 12, 1960
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    4.26 x 0.77 x 7.2 inches
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    0394700953
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"Professor Hofstadter has written a superb book...The Age of Reform entitles Hofstadter to rank with C. Vann Woodward as a master of creative synthesis, as an interpreter of the past who can add to cold data an emphatic insight that transforms history from a book of the dead into a chronicle of life." —American Political Science Review

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This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; unknown edition (February 12, 1960)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394700953
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394700953
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.26 x 0.77 x 7.2 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 125 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Book like new
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022
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Desmond Yuen
4.0 out of 5 stars Good History Book on US Politics
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2016
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It's a wonderful book on the history of the transformation of the US. The book itself is short and concise. As one of the reviewers commented, it is not an easy read. To be able to understand some of the contents, one will need to have some knowledge and background on US history. While it's more a book on history of US politics, one can also get a good sense of how the society has changed or evolved during the Gilded Age?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great realistic view of the depression from one of America's ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016
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Great realistic view of the depression from one of America's most prominent historians. Hofstadter does an outstanding job describing the evolution of the populist to progressives culminating in the New Deal. Its a great read full of valuable information.
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duke ponick
5.0 out of 5 stars Had read this book 2 to 3 times before. ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2016
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Had read this book 2 to 3 times before. The author's method and insights are still valid in my opinion. Valuable to assess current and recurrent themes in American politics.
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Joseph LaGuardia
3.0 out of 5 stars More economic review than political/cultural portrait
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2019
What I thought would be a comprehensive sweep of political and cultural history of the Progressive Era turned out to be a too-deep-in-the-weeds critique of the economic patterns associated with the Populist and Progressive movements at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the subtitle states that the book is a history (and a Pulitzer prize winner at that!) from W. J. Bryan to F.D.R., only the last part of the last chapter covered the New Deal.

The most compelling part of this book was Hofstadter's insistence on exposing the myths and motivations surrounding the Progressive Era. While we look at the Era with high idealism (and certainly have inherited that high-minded view from our forebears, because this book was published in 1955 after all), Hofstadter proves that much of the politics of the time were merely pragmatic. Even the New Deal was a "legislation of experimentation", and much of the reforms that took place between 1890 and 1948 were the result of people trying to muddle through industrialism, urbanism, conflicting theories of economics, and vastly shifting currency rates. Sounds boring? It was.

I am grateful, regardless, of having a better view of Progressivism, my own particular heritage of choice. I would have preferred more time on T. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, but--as mentioned--this was more economic portrait than political history.
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John E. Banks
5.0 out of 5 stars A great account
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019
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This remains a great account of the reformers.
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Michael Falls
4.0 out of 5 stars Still a classic.
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018
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An American Classic, if a bit dated today, but still filled with trenchant insights, even for the here and now.
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Robert Allen
5.0 out of 5 stars Hofstdter never disappoints
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013
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Hofstadter is always a great writer to read and has a great number of insights about what people do and why they do it. I highly recommend this work.
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Steven
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 25, 2017
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Really great book, so insighful and interesting, a definite read for anyone interested in pre-WWII US history
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Leonardo
1.0 out of 5 stars Pessimo
Reviewed in Italy on November 24, 2017
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Prodotto di scarsa qualità. Sconsiglio vivamente l’ acquisto. Non risponde alla descrizione che viene fatta sul sito pertanto da giudizio negativo
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