| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Lorien Foote. Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 224. $39.95.
In concluding her compelling study of Francis George Shaw and his times, Lorien Foote reminds the reader that "most Americans ... ignored the larger meaning of Shaw's life" (p. 179), which was his lifelong search for an alternative American social system, an obsession culminating in his conversion to Henry George's single tax proposal and a close friendship with the reformer himself. Foote's purpose is twofold: first to rehabilitate "Frank" Shaw as a significant contributor to the American reform tradition; and, more important, to correct the received opinion of historians of the nineteenth-century that the American Civil War served as a sharp divide between antebellum utopians and postwar scientific reformers. Shaw's busy career, powered by inexhaustible reform energy, largely proves her point. "Older reformers," she explains, "Shaw among them, and some from the younger generation joined together in movements that had explicit links to antebellum radicalism" (p. 164).	1
No single explanation, Foote argues, can account for the variety of late nineteenth-century reform enterprises extending from the proposals of the medical and legal communities to calls for moral uplift and dozens of civic enterprises. In reality, she explains, "there were many different houses though they often shared occupants" (p. 164). Shaw's daughter, Josephine Shaw Lowell, the organizer of the scientific charity movement, inhabited one of these reform houses and her father, a convert to the single tax, another: loving father and daughter generations apart in their diagnosis of and proposed cure for American social ills.	. . .

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