| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Michael McGerr. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920. New York: Free Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 395. $30.00.

Any treatment of the Progressive era immediately confronts two problems. First, how is one to make sense of the diffuse energies of the "progressive" reformers themselves, whose efforts have variously been linked to the ideological influence of social democracy, social control, social gospel Protestantism, maternalism, antimonopoly, and the cult of efficiency, among others? Second, how might one weigh the influence of the reformers in relation to other contemporary actors in business, politics, and the workplace as well as in community life, the home, and a consumer marketplace of ever-increasing invention? Balancing reformist projects and changing social contexts, and with an eye for compelling characters and a good storyline, Michael E. McGerr tries out his own ordering principles on the era, with mixed results.

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