Benjamin Parke DeWitt's study of the Progressive Era represents a
comprehensive history of the theory and practice of politics from a
progressive perspective. His account of the history and projections
about the future of the progressive science of politics provided
the American liberal-progressive tradition with its first full
narrative history at a time when it was not yet the dominant
interpretation of the American political order. Its greatest
importance, however, lies in DeWitt's conception of where the
broad-based progressive critique of the Founders' was heading.
DeWitt's history of the origins and projected destiny of the
progressive tradition commands a respect that places him in the
same company as better-known writers. His historical narrative of
the liberal progressive tradition was implicit among a number of
writers before the Progressive Movement, but no contemporary writer
provided a better roadmap of where progressivism was going than
DeWitt. What gives DeWitt's critique a twist is his focus on the
individualism of the founders, which he regards as the heart of
their anti-democratic principles. His critique of this
individualism is the foundation for his argument that collectivism
is arguably a more democratic alternative.
Benjamin Parke DeWitt is one of the lesser-known, often
overlooked writers who worked to establish the liberal library of
American political thought. This book deserves to be read as one of
the neglected gems of the Progressive Era that it chronicles. This
is an important addition to the Library of Liberal Thought
series.
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