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Book Review

The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914. By Nancy Cohen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 318 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2670-7. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5354-2.)
This ambitious study adds a new dimension to a revision in the historical analysis of American progressivism that began with the discovery of corporate liberalism. Subsequent work identified a more contested transformation in social thought that included a U.S. version of "new liberalism" that was both a longer ideological project (1880s–1930s) than traditional progressivism and more democratic, more statist, and more deeply embedded in transatlantic reform thought than was corporate liberalism. Informed as well by the rich contemporary historiography of female reform, new institutionalism, and the "return of the state" to labor history, this second "post-revision" yielded a more favorable assessment of pro-gressivism. . . .
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