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Farewell to Reform: the Rise, Life and Decay of the Progressive Mind in America
1965. First edition thus. 333 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Extensive underlining and marginalia. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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First published January 1, 2000
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April 30, 2011
Premature obituary for the Progressive era.
December 25, 2022
I can't see the only review of this so I'll write my own. I've only read the foreward so I'll need to come back to this.
This ditty was written in 1932 and I have the Quadrangle paperback from 1965.
I've read quite a few original contemporary accounts of the FDR years and I think it's good to supplement the regurgitated accounts looking back in hindsight with these.
One that blew me away was a 1940 book by former Indiana Democrat Congressman Samuel Pettengill called Smokescreen. He warns of the fascist tendencies of the New Deal which at the time for me was a revelation. I'd always heard the standard criticism of it being communist.
In the forward the author Chamberlin writes nicely:
I note with some amusement that I stand with both Ralph West Robey financial editor of the conservative NY Evening Post and with John Strachey, the English Marxist critic.
In other words , both conservatives and radicals know how Capitalism works; it is only the liberal, who has mistaken an adjective for a credo, that is deluded.
It looks like Chamberlin predicts a movement to the right for FDR. Is that correct? Remember this was 1932.
Back Cover blurb:
An illuminating and brilliantly written history of that American period which started with the collapse of Populism and ended with the collapse of Wilson ism. Louis M. Hacker The Nation.
This ditty was written in 1932 and I have the Quadrangle paperback from 1965.
I've read quite a few original contemporary accounts of the FDR years and I think it's good to supplement the regurgitated accounts looking back in hindsight with these.
One that blew me away was a 1940 book by former Indiana Democrat Congressman Samuel Pettengill called Smokescreen. He warns of the fascist tendencies of the New Deal which at the time for me was a revelation. I'd always heard the standard criticism of it being communist.
In the forward the author Chamberlin writes nicely:
I note with some amusement that I stand with both Ralph West Robey financial editor of the conservative NY Evening Post and with John Strachey, the English Marxist critic.
In other words , both conservatives and radicals know how Capitalism works; it is only the liberal, who has mistaken an adjective for a credo, that is deluded.
It looks like Chamberlin predicts a movement to the right for FDR. Is that correct? Remember this was 1932.
Back Cover blurb:
An illuminating and brilliantly written history of that American period which started with the collapse of Populism and ended with the collapse of Wilson ism. Louis M. Hacker The Nation.
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