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Article: The Lost Promise of Progressivism.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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R. Jeffrey Lustig, California State University, Sacramento
The Progressive Era continues to spark intense debate because it saw not only broad political protest and economic transformation but also the forging of the modern American political identity and narrative of national destiny. In The Lost Promise of Progressivism, Eldon Eisenach presents a fresh account of the sources and nature of this identity, finding it rooted in the mission of America as a redeemer nation, guided by a "national public good" and distinguished sharply from that of the interest-oriented liberalism to follow.
The public doctrine that caught the essence of Progressive vision and ...