| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. By Alan Dawley. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xii, 409 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-11322-X.)

Alan Dawley's new book, one of the fruits of the recent international turn in American history, is less a comparative study of Progressive Era reformers in the United States and elsewhere than an effort to demonstrate the U.S. movement's responsiveness to its international contexts of revolution and world war. Dawley argues that the progressives' project of domestic improvement was inseparable from their ambition to redeem the larger world as well. He chronicles reformers' engagement in this twofold task as it took on special urgency with the beginning of U.S. intervention in the Mexican revolution in 1914, reached a climax with Woodrow Wilson's arrival at Versailles in 1919, and persisted with declining effectiveness through Robert La Follette's failed presidential bid in 1924. An epilogue sketches the national and international legacies of progressivism through the New Deal, during the subsequent war and Cold War, and into an uncertain new era for which the author hopes that those legacies may find new relevance.

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