Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919-1929By Kevin C. Murphy , Copyright 2013-2014. All Rights Reserved.
Abstract |
Acknowledgements |
Preface | Prologue
Intro | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Conclusion
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: THE BOURNE LEGACY I. The Bourne Legacy .
II. Progressives and Progressivism . III. Cast of Characters .
IV. Review of the Literature .
V. Chapter Outline
PROLOGUE: INAUGURATION DAY, 1921
PART ONE: CRACK-UP: FROM VERSAILLES TO NORMALCY
Chapter One: The Tragedy of the Peace Messiah
I. An American in Paris . II. A Human Failure
III. A Failure of Idealism?
IV. The Peace Progressives
Chapter Two: The "League of Dam-Nations"
I. Collapse at Pueblo .
II. The Origins of the League .
III. The League After Armistice .
IV. Progressive Nationalists .
V. The Treaty Arrives .
VI. The Articles of Contention .
VII. Things Fall Apart .
VIII. Aftermath .
Chapter Three: Chaos at Home
I. Terror Comes to R St .
II. The Storm Before the Storm .
III. Enemies in Office, Friends in Jail .
IV. Mobilizing the Nation .
V. The Wheels Come Off .
VI. On a Pale Horse .
VII. Battle in Seattle .
VIII. The Great Strike Wave .
IX. Steel and Coal .
X. The Red Summer .
XI. The Forces of Order .
XII. Mr. Palmer's War .
XIII. The Fever Breaks .
XIV. The Best Laid Plans .
Chapter Four: The Triumph of Reaction: 1920
I. A Rematch Not to Be .
II. The Man on Horseback .
III. The Men in the Middle .
IV. I'm for Hiram .
V. Visions of a Third Term .
VI. Ambition in the Cabinet .
VII. The Democrats' Lowden .
VIII. The Great Engineer .
IX. The Smoke-Filled Room .
X. San Francisco .
XI. A Third Party? .
XII. Mr. Ickes' Vote .
XIII. Countdown to a Landslide .
XIV. The Triumph of Reaction .
PART TWO: CONFRONTING NORMALCY
Chapter Five: The Politics of Normalcy
I. The Harding White House .
II. Organizing in Opposition .
III. Lobbies Pestiferous and Progressive .
IV. The Taint of Newberryism .
V. The Harding Scandals .
VI. Tempest From a Teapot .
Chapter Six: Legacies of the Scare
I. The Education of Jane Addams .
II. Prisoners of Conscience .
III. The Laws and the Court .
IV. The Shoemaker and the Fish-Peddler .
V. The Shame of America .
VI. The Right to Organize .
VII. Professional Patriots .
Chapter Seven: America and the World
I. The Sins of the Colonel .
II. Guarding the Back Door .
III. Disarming the World .
IV. The Outlawry of War .
V. The Temptations of Empire .
VI. Immigrant Indigestion .
Chapter Eight: The Duty to Revolt: 1924
I. Indian Summer .
II. Now is the Time .
III. Hiram and Goliath .
IV. Coronation in Cleveland .
V. Schism in the Democracy .
VI. Escape from New York .
VII. Fighting Bob .
VIII. Coolidge or Chaos .
IX. The Contested Inheritance .
X. Reds, Pinks, Blues, and Yellows .
XI. The Second Landslide .
PART TWO: A NEW ERA
Chapter Nine: The Business of America
I. Two Brooms, Two Presidents .
II. A Puritan in Babylon .
III. Hoover and Mellon .
IV. Business Triumphant .
Chapter Ten: Culture and Consumption
I. A Distracted Nation .
II. The Descent of Man .
III. The Problem of Public Opinion .
IV. The Triumph of the Cynics .
V. Scopes and the Schism .
VI. Not with a Bang, but a Whimper .
VII. New World and a New Woman .
VIII. The Empire and the Experiment .
Chapter Eleven: New Deal Coming
I. A Taste of Things to Come .
II. The General Welfare .
III. The Sidewalks of Albany .
IV. For the Child, Against the Court .
V. The Rivers Give, The Rivers Take .
Chapter Twelve: My America Against Tammany's: 1928
I. The Republican Succession .
II. The Available Man .
III. Hoover v. Smith .
IV. The Third Landslide .
CONCLUSION: TIRED RADICALS
I. The Strange Case of Reynolds Rogers .
II. The Progressive Revival .
III. Confessions of the Reformers .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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