| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. By Daniel Eli Burnstein. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 200 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-252-03024-9.)

Anxious to find a liberalism that works, a growing number of historians have returned to an old source. They now present Progressives, so often derided as culturally biased meddlers, as fair-minded reformers worth emulating. Jane Addams and advocates of direct democracy have received this treatment recently, and now sanitation reformers have as well. Daniel Eli Burnstein's Next to Godliness provides a thorough account of efforts to improve sanitary conditions in New York City. As he sees it, those reformers succeeded because they did not shrink from emphasizing individual moral responsibility even as they sought to remake the social and physical environment.

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