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From progressive to New Dealer : Frederic C. Howe and American liberalism / Kenneth E. Miller.

Title
From progressive to New Dealer : Frederic C. Howe and American liberalism / Kenneth E. Miller.
Author
Miller, Kenneth E., 1926 July 6-
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.

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Description
xi, 489 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
"A biography of Frederic C. Howe, a reformer and political activist in Cleveland, New York, and Washington, D.C., in the Progressive and New Deal eras (1890s to 1930s)"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A comfortable little world -- The truth will make you free -- Hanging on the ragged edge -- Vistas of political possibilities -- The city on a hill -- The hope of democracy -- Writing and politicking -- Uprising and uplifting -- Marie Howe and the heterodites -- A happy interim -- The island of tears -- Liberals and the great war -- Peacemaking and red baiting -- Searching for a new party -- Searching for wisdom -- Fred and Marie -- Protecting the consumer -- From Washington to Manila.
ISBN
  • 9780271037424 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271037423 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010018246
OCLC
  • 624542189
  • SCSB-11748978
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library