Steven L. Piott is professor of history at Clarion University. He is the author of Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America, Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea, and The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise in Big Business in the Midwest.

Steven L. Piott's vigorous biographies of this select group of reformers, and his probing analysis of their work, illuminate the mosaic that was the Age of Reform. This volume should become a staple in college classes, but anyone interested in American history will profit from reading it.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Lester Frank Ward and Reform DarwinismChapter 2: Henry George's Democratic EconomicsChapter 3: Charles W. Macune's Cooperative VisionChapter 4: Ida B. Wells's Crusade Against RacismChapter 5: Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social GospelChapter 6: Jane Addams and the Settlement House IdeaChapter 7: Florence Kelley's Quest for Humane Labor LegislationChapter 8: Louis Brandeis, the Law, and Social ChangeChapter 9: Lincoln Steffens Muckrakes the Business of PoliticsChapter 10: Harvey W. Wiley and the Ethics of Pure Food and DrugsChapter 11: John Randolph Haynes and Direct DemocracyChapter 12: Alice Paul and the Campaign for Human Rights

Steven L. Piott is professor of history at Clarion University. He is the author of Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America, Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea, and The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise in Big Business in the Midwest.

Steven L. Piott's vigorous biographies of this select group of reformers, and his probing analysis of their work, illuminate the mosaic that was the Age of Reform. This volume should become a staple in college classes, but anyone interested in American history will profit from reading it.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Lester Frank Ward and Reform DarwinismChapter 2: Henry George's Democratic EconomicsChapter 3: Charles W. Macune's Cooperative VisionChapter 4: Ida B. Wells's Crusade Against RacismChapter 5: Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social GospelChapter 6: Jane Addams and the Settlement House IdeaChapter 7: Florence Kelley's Quest for Humane Labor LegislationChapter 8: Louis Brandeis, the Law, and Social ChangeChapter 9: Lincoln Steffens Muckrakes the Business of PoliticsChapter 10: Harvey W. Wiley and the Ethics of Pure Food and DrugsChapter 11: John Randolph Haynes and Direct DemocracyChapter 12: Alice Paul and the Campaign for Human Rights

Steven L. Piott is professor of history at Clarion University. He is the author of Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America, Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea, and The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise in Big Business in the Midwest.

Steven L. Piott's vigorous biographies of this select group of reformers, and his probing analysis of their work, illuminate the mosaic that was the Age of Reform. This volume should become a staple in college classes, but anyone interested in American history will profit from reading it.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Lester Frank Ward and Reform DarwinismChapter 2: Henry George's Democratic EconomicsChapter 3: Charles W. Macune's Cooperative VisionChapter 4: Ida B. Wells's Crusade Against RacismChapter 5: Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social GospelChapter 6: Jane Addams and the Settlement House IdeaChapter 7: Florence Kelley's Quest for Humane Labor LegislationChapter 8: Louis Brandeis, the Law, and Social ChangeChapter 9: Lincoln Steffens Muckrakes the Business of PoliticsChapter 10: Harvey W. Wiley and the Ethics of Pure Food and DrugsChapter 11: John Randolph Haynes and Direct DemocracyChapter 12: Alice Paul and the Campaign for Human Rights