American Progressivism: A Reader
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This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism’s role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure’s influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the leader of a agreed selection is writing.
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… Based on the poor erudition, creditability and obvious bias of the two editors, Pestritto and Atto. Pestritto is faculty at Hillsdale College, a putative “center of privileged learning” in the mode of Pat Robertson’s Regent University, whose law school figured so prominently in the Bush administration’s failed mangling and politicization of the DoJ. This Pestritto fellow just appeared on Glen Beck’s program, destroying any shred of credibility he might have claimed. Atto isn’t much better and his association with a crackpot like Pestritto destroys any literary street cred he might have had. I have small to add to Mr. Peterson’s review, which seems to be reasonably reasonable. I will note that my greatest guilty pleasure is reading Amazon book reviews, especially the ones by people who are so stupid, you marvel why they even bother to read. It doesn’t help them. If you watch Glen Beck and don’t realize Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism is best used as toilet paper, I’m talking to you.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book didnt help me win any opinion. Every time I tried to snub a fact or change the theme (recommended tactics), it only made me look uninformed. I still cant judge conservatives dont judge in hope and change, (awesome sounding words). They really resolve to use logic and reality, (outdated and dull), and it really is infuriating.
Hopefully we can start to ban conservative thoughts and ideals with the fairness doctrine, and eventually we can win the intelectual battles.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
American Progressivism is not well researched or objective. The editors are more talk show hosts than historians. They seem bent on ideological attacks rather than objective analysis. In order to promote this book on television, the editors have resorted to villifying and attacking, rather than thoughtfully analyzing, some of our nations leaders, both Democrat and Republican. This book is a sad statement on the state of American erudition. You would be better off purchasing Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr. The Cooper work is well-researched, very much detailed and exciting to read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Additional than laying the foundation for the current socialistic mess this country is suffering through under the current joke of an administration, I didn’t see the point here.
It seems to me, the Progressive movement from the early 20th century was grounded in more common sense than we see today, with Obama Nation threatening to ruin our entire social & economic stucture. There are a lot more compelling books out there to clarify why we’re in such a mess, but you already knew that.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This collection is very excellent as long as you don’t read the introduction. The mind-set of the authors is that of originalists — much like Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia — in that they value the original texts, open raw, with no bias. This is a respectable viewpoint and it justifies these very valuable documents open here. The introduction, by the editors, is an extremely biased essay with no citations additional than a few from the time period. The mountain of literary erudition on the Progressive Era in the last 60 years, rumor has it that is of no use to Pestritto and Atto since all persons professors are liberal. So we are left with a highly opinionated essay, with very small supporting evidence, on what the Progressive Era was all about. This is consistent with the wave of conservative work that is attemtping to make a consensus, with a total rejection of any and all past erudition. It’s appealing that with a few early exceptions by Wilson, nearly all the documents are from 1905-1915 or so (most are from 1912). Students of Progressivism realize that this time period was really Progressivism 2.0, with the era of about 1880-1905 very rich in thoughts from Agrarian America, the Gilded Age and its re-orientation of liberalism, and from overseas. Also, readers will not get an impression of Progressivism with point legislative or programmatic examples at the state level or from cities like New York, Chicago or Cleveland. As a replacement for, these essays are the huge picture of national Progressivism. The editors have done a very valuable service in collecting these documents but they come up fleeting in their faulty introductory essay.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5