Visions of Progress – The Left–Liberal Tradition in America Rossinow Paperback

Visions of ProgressThe Left-Liberal Tradition in America\nAuthor(s): Doug Rossinow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812220957, 978-0812220957\nSynopsis\nLiberals and leftists in the United States have not always been estranged from one another as they are today. Historian Doug Rossinow examines how the cooperation and the creative tension between left-wing radicals and liberal reformers advanced many of the most important political values of the twentieth century, including free speech, freedom of conscience, and racial equality.\n\n Visions of Progress chronicles the broad alliances of radical and liberal figures who were driven by a particular concept of social progress-a transformative vision in which the country would become not simply wealthier or a bit fairer but fundamentally more democratic, just, and united. Believers in this vision-from the settlement-house pioneer Jane Ad.