Alan Lessoff | Note from the Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.3

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Alan Lessoff | Note from the Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.3 | The History Cooperative

Note from the Editor

In their different ways, the essays in this issue spark reflection over the shadow that the Progressive Era (as opposed to progressivism itself) cast over subsequent decades. In May 2007, a week before writing this, I served on the thesis committee of an MA student in another country. The student, who had written about the short-lived debate right after World War II over the proposed international supervision of nuclear weapons, sought to understand the deeply felt doubt that the main U.S. negotiator, then-elder statesman Bernard Baruch, exhibited towards cooperation with the Soviet Union on such a momentous matter. I suggested that Baruch's suspicions began with the very negative initial impressions that he and others involved in managing the U.S. effort during World War I had of the Bolsheviks and their revolution. Not just strong anti-Soviets, but some characters who stood for a more accommodating stance had their political start in the Woodrow Wilson administration. This includes Joseph E. Davies, controversial envoy to the USSR during Franklin Roosevelt's administration, whom Elizabeth Kimball MacLean has spent years studying. As MacLean explains in this issue, Davies' political origins were more typically progressive than Baruch's. A key figure in implementing the New Freedom's business policies and an architect of the Federal Trade Commission, the Democrat Davies shared the vision more commonly associated with the Republican progressives and the Bull Moosers of expert, public sector oversight and management of the corporate economy.

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