| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900–1915. By Christopher J. Cyphers. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. x, 199 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97327-1.)

Christopher J. Cyphers has written a useful study of the National Civic Federation (NCF), a reform organization active during the Progressive Era. The NCF was, as the author writes,	1
a tripartite policy reform organization composed of corporate businessmen; trade-union leaders; and representative men and women from national politics, academia, the press, the clergy, the law, and the broader social reform community. (p. 3)
The leading figure in the NCF was Ralph M. Easley, who was the chairman of the group's executive council for its forty-five-year history. The presidency of the NCF was held by a diverse group of figures, including, as the first three presidents, Mark Hanna, August Belmont, and Seth Low.	. . .

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