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Book Review
Men
against Myths: The Progressive Response. By Fred Greenbaum. (Westport: Praeger, 2000. 223
pp. $67.50, ISBN 0-275-96888-X.)
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Greenbaum's examination of six Progressive politicians is, like the men he
describes, a mixed bag. The six are the Nebraska senator George Norris, a
"pragmatic" politician; the Idaho senator William E. Borah, who defended
"the wisdom of our [Founding] Fathers"; the California senator Hiram
Johnson, an "isolationist"; William Gibbs McAdoo, a "business promoter
as politician," who was Woodrow Wilson's treasury secretary and, in the
1930s, a one-term California senator; New York's Bainbridge Colby, a
"conservative as progressive," who served briefly as Wilson's secretary
of state; and the Colorado senator Edward P. Costigan, an "urban
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