UID:
edocfu_9959229237602883
Format:
1 online resource (401 p.)
ISBN:
1-4696-0538-4
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0-8078-9869-4
Content:
A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States--then, as now--was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia. Dr
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The dangerous trades -- The Pittsburgh survey -- Justice, not pity -- The wages of work -- Citizen -- The social gospel -- Lynching in all its phases -- Progressive encore? a postscript.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-7191-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3300-2
Language:
English
