

A Fierce Discontent
The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
Author: Michael McGerr
Narrator: Joe Barrett
Unabridged: 13 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/13/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Social Science, Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Synopsis
Michael McGerr argues the expectations raised by the progressives' utopian hopes have nagged at us ever since. Our current, less-than-epic politics must inevitably disappoint a nation that once thought in epic terms. The New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Great Society, and now the war on terrorism have each entailed ambitious plans for America. But the failure of the progressive movement set boundaries around the aspirations of all of these efforts. None of them was as ambitious, as openly determined to transform people and create utopia, as the progressive movement. We have been forced to think modestly ever since that age of bold reform. For all of us, right, center, and left, the age of "fierce discontent" is long over.