| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Elizabeth Sanders. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917. (American Politics and Political Economy.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. Pp. x, 532. Cloth $48.00, paper $16.00.

Elizabeth Sanders's choice of title will send tingles down the spine of many a historian of the Gilded Age and Progressive era. Might this be the book that explains why tens of thousands of industrial workers joined the Populist movement despite their glaring differences with farmers? Might this be the book that dispels Lawrence Goodwyn's pessimism that "true democracy" ended with the election of 1896? Might this be the book that incorporates the insights of Theda Skocpol and other political scientists into a compelling narrative of the rise of the modern American state? Will farmers and workers be its principal historical actors? In point of fact, farmers and workers are largely absent from the book, readers will discover. Sanders focuses instead on "the public positions taken by political representatives" (p. 3), and the action in her book takes place primarily in the halls of Congress. . . .

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