This book describes the transformative power of citizen action. A
gripping and inspiring book, ""Civic Passions"" examines innovative
leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from
the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that
America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the
wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series
of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain
respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States -
then, as now - was riddled with political corruption, financial
panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia.
Drawing on a wealth of evocative personal accounts, biographies,
and archival material, Tichi brings seven iconoclastic individuals
from the Gilded Age back to life. We meet physician Alice Hamilton,
theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, jurist Louis D. Brandeis, consumer
advocate Florence Kelley, antilynching activist Ida B.
Wells-Barnett, economist John R. Commons, and child-welfare
advocate Julia Lathrop. Bucking the status quo of the Gilded Age as
well as middle-class complacency, these reformers tirelessly
garnered popular support as they championed progressive solutions
to seemingly intractable social problems. ""Civic Passions"" is a
provocative and powerfully written social history, a collection of
minibiographies, and a user's manual on how a generation of social
reformers can turn peril into progress with fresh, workable ideas.
Together, these narratives of advocacy provide a stunning precedent
of progressive action and show how citizen-activists can engage the
problems of the age in imaginative ways. While offering useful
models to encourage the nation in a newly progressive direction,
""Civic Passions"" reminds us that one determined individual can
make a difference.
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