Triumph of Conservatism

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Simon and Schuster, Jun 30, 2008 - Political Science - 356 pages
A radically new interpretation of the Progressive Era which argues that business leaders, and not the reformers, inspired the era’s legislation regarding business.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Predictions and Promises
11
THREE Theodore Roosevelt and the Foundations
57
FOUR Roosevelt As Reformer 19041906
79
SEVEN The Ordeal of William Howard Taft 19091911
159
EIGHT The Politics of 1912
190
NINE Woodrow Wilson and the Triumph
217
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Gabriel Kolko is Professor of History at York University. He is the author of Politics of War and Roots of American Foreign Policy and the co-author, with Joyce Kolko, of The Limits of Power.

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