Article: THE FOURTH GREAT AWAKENING AND THE FUTURE OF EGALITARIANISM.(Review)

THE FOURTH GREAT AWAKENING AND THE FUTURE OF EGALITARIANISM. By ROBERT WILLIAM FOGEL. University of Chicago Press. 383 pp. $25.

THE FRAMEWORK FOR this book by economic historian Robert William Fogel, 1993 Nobel Prize-winner in economics, is borrowed, as the author fully acknowledges, from a work published in 1978: Revivals, Awakenings, and Reforms, written by the late William G. McLoughlin, a history professor at Brown University. To understand Fogel's book, it turns out, a quick survey of McLoughlin's is first needed.

McLoughlin identified five "awakenings" (or religious revitalization movements) in American history. The first was the Puritan awakening, ...

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