Donohue, Kathleen G. 2003. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
This book does an excellent job of showing exactly what Michael Hoover suggests. On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:30:30PM -0400, Michael Hoover wrote: > > fwiw: michael perelman mentioned that early 20th progressives were > often republicans...call them 'structural' as opposed to 'social' > reformers, they had faith in ultimate rightness and efficacy of > capitalist system (many of them had benefitted from it)...they did, > however, have fears of working class political power so they supported > some state intervention and electoral changes to advance their > conception of desirable public policy... michael hoover > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
