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Canada and the United States

Douglas J. Slawson. The Department of Education Battle, 1918–1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order. (Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism.) Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 332. $43.00.

If the Progressive era seemed to wane with the bloody cataclysm of the Great War and the failed efforts of Woodrow Wilson at Versailles, how should we understand the 1920s, when Americans experimented with the reformers' legacies of prohibition and woman suffrage? Instead of the Jazz Age of Scott Fitzgerald and Josephine Baker, or the divided America of H. L. Mencken and William Jennings Bryan, Douglas J. Slawson provides readers a close examination of an important, if not so glamorous, 1920s conflict over federal education policy that stretched out into the sometimes contradictory cultural and political currents of hyperpatriotism, nativism, antistatism, and anti-Catholicism.

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