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Daniel T. Rodgers
Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. His book Age of Fracture shared the Bancroft Prize for 2012.
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A Little Liberal Persuasion
Darwin and Lincoln were born on the same day two centuries ago. A mere coincidence, or did the two men write the language of modern liberalism?
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A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America By Lizabeth Cohen, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 567 pages, $35.00 In many a family memory, the 25 years between the end of World War II and the economic crisis of the 1970s were the “good years” of the 20th century. These were the […]
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Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Basic Books, 336 pages, $20.00 The appellation “St. Jane” came early to Jane Addams. Florence Kelley, one of her closest comrades during the early years of settlement work at Hull House, once told Addams that if another woman called her a saint again, […]