David’s Reviews > The Age of Reform (Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History, 1956): From Bryan to F.D.R. > Status Update

"The central theme in Progressivism was this revolt against the industrial discipline: the Progressive movement was the complaint of the unorganized against the consequences of organization."

They're saying it's the worst summation of the Progressive Era of all time. Richard what the hell are you talking about. Patently absurd.

Bad sourcing is a Hofstadter special. Ridiculous critique of Ignatius Donnelly as "sadistic" for his dystopian fiction. Hofstadter's attacks on the Populists from a liberal angle fall flat because he doesn't acknowledge the Herrenvolk nature of America writ large, only in the progressive Populist movement and rural anxieties. Reads like Clinton-Schumerian theory lol