| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism. By Shelton Stromquist. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x, 289 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-252-03026-5. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-252-07269-3.)

The relationship between Progressivism, class, race, immigration, and twentieth-century liberalism is a complicated one that has long been the object of historical scrutiny. The historian Shelton Stromquist places the concept of class at the center of the discussion of reform in early twentieth century America, despite the denials of many of the Progressives themselves. His Re-Inventing "The People" is largely a work of synthesis, but an excellent one that takes the reader through the historiography and carves its own place within it. This book will be welcomed by labor, urban, political, and immigration historians, among others, as a solid contribution that sheds light on the Progressives' attitudes on various issues, but particularly on class.

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