... fledge into the twentieth century. Initially, the progressive attitude expounded on the traditional populist way of thought, usually very rural and very territorial and definitely Anglo-Saxon conservative. But now, with the changing of the landscape of small town America to the vast new age of huge cities, feeding off large factories, the progressive thinking person was from the urban, middle class, ... between the reformer and the immigrant and kept society at odds with each. The second essay, by Gerald Woods, takes the progressive movement to a more specific time and place. A tale of t...

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