Author:
Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970, ed.
Imprint:Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1963]
Description185 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Muckrakers: S.S. McClure discovers a trend of the times, 1903 -- Theodore Roosevelt finds a name for the Muckrakers, 1906 -- Ida M. Tarbell on the methods of the standard oil company, 1902 -- Upton Sinclair on the Chicago stockyards, 1906 -- Marie Van Vorst on the plight of the working woman, 1903 -- John Spargo on child labor, 1906 -- Ray Stannard Baker on the condition of the negro, 1905.
Note:Social and Moral Issues: East-side resident testifies on tenement conditions, 1900 -- Robert Hunter on poverty, 1904 -- Justice Holmes dissents in Lochner v. New York, 1905 -- Louis D. Brandeis presents an unconventional brief, 1907 -- David J. Brewer in Muller v. Oregon, 1908 -- Theodore Roosevelt on conservation, 1907 -- Edward A. Ross on the criminaloid, 1907 -- Walter Rauschenbusch on the social role of Christianity, 1907 -- Rheta Childe Dorr on the role of American women, 1910 -- Jane Addams indicts an ancient evil, 1912 -- Walter Weyl on the revolt of the consumer, 1913 -- Herbert Croly on unionism and the national interest, 1909 -- Samuel Gompers testifies on the needs of labor, 1913.
Note:Bossism and Political Reform: William Allen White on the boss system, 1910 -- David Graham Phillips attacks a national boss, 1906 -- Lincoln Steffens reports La Follette's reforms, 1906 -- Theodore Roosevelt on the new nationalism, 1910 -- Progressive Party platform of 1912 -- William Allen White on the revival of democracy, 1910 -- Herbert Croly on the techniques of democracy, 1915.
Note:The Trusts and Big Business: Theodore Roosevelt on the great corporations, 1910 -- John Marshall Harlan in the northern securities case, 1904 -- Robert M. La Follette pleads for railroad regulation, 1906 -- Woodrow Wilson calls for tariff revision, 1913 -- Woodrow Wilson assails the tariff lobby, 1913 -- Pujo Committee on the money trust, 1913 -- Louis D. Brandeis on the uses of other people's money, 1914 -- Woodrow Wilson on the meaning of the new freedom, 1912 -- Walter Lippmann analyzes the anti-trust ideal, 1914.
