| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii, 196 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1348-X.)
In this thoughtful and provocative meditation on the shortcomings of the Progressive temperament, the political theorist Bob Pepperman Taylor gives a close reading of texts by six writers from the era, Walter Lippmann, Herbert Croly, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Carl Becker, and Aldo Leopold.	1
Most Progressivism, Taylor argues, is "haunted" by "two pernicious ideas" (p. 1). The first is Lippmann's notion that democratic politics should be modeled on modern science, a principle that leads to a "preoccupation with mastery of the material world" (p. 34) and a willingness to sacrifice democratic self-government in order to alleviate material want. The second is Croly's belief that a democratic order is predicated on social and ideological consensus. Croly promotes a form of citizenship that is "monolithic and all consuming" (p. 43), in which the self-realization of the individual is harnessed to national imperatives.	. . .

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