Alan Dawley was Professor of History, The College of New Jersey.

• Introduction Part I: The Problem: State and Society, 1890s-1912 Chapter 1. Gilded Age Liberty Chapter 2. New Workers, New Women Chapter 3. The Social Question Part II: Confronting the Issues, 1913-1924 Chapter 4. Progressive Statecraft Chapter 5. The Dynamics of Total War Chapter 6. Response to Revolution Chapter 7. Restoration by Repression Part III: The Resolution, 1925-1938 Chapter 8. The New Era of Corporate Capitalism Chapter 9. Managing the Depression: Hoover and Roosevelt Chapter 10. Rendezvous with Destiny Conclusion Abbreviations Selected Bibliography Notes Index

Historians have been calling for years for syntheses of the new scholarship of the last generation. Dawley has now provided one… He dusts democracy off and places it back where it belongs, at the center of the story… His argument helps restore balance to our conception of ‘progressivism’ and to our understanding of the larger liberal world of which, he reminds us, democratic impulses were once (and we must hope remain) a vital part.