ISBN: 0394700953 9780394700953

Category: History / United States / 20th Century

Page count: 330

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.<br></b><br>This book is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The <i>Age of Reform</i> 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.