"A historical tour de force of the Progressive era in a middle
class city, Professor Johnston's book will begin to unravel the
stultifying stereotyping of the middle classes and remove cobwebs
of inaction from the minds of today's civic organizers and
thinkers."--Ralph Nader
"This is one of the most original, provocative, and imaginative
works about the modern U.S. that I have read in years. Johnston has
produced far more than a splendid history about the neglected
politics of a neglected city. His book is studded with insights
about what it meant and means to be middle class and the fecund
nature of populism in industrial and post-industrial America. What
is more, he gives us hope for the future."--Michael Kazin,
Georgetown University, author of "The Populist Persuasion: An
American History"
"Johnston's daring, meticulous, subtle, and analytically acute
study of Portland's lower middle class leaves hundreds of shallow
and condescending cliches about the petite bourgeoisie mortally
wounded or gasping for breath in its splendid wake. He succeeds in
restoring the historical autonomy, particularity, and egalitarian
moral economy of America's lower middle classes. As with E.P.
Thompson's history of the English working class, subsequent work on
the middle class in America must now take this study as its point
of departure."--James C. Scott, author of "Seeing Like a State"
"Johnston seizes the Progressive Era and gives it back to the
people. He argues that the roots of reform flourished among average
citizens, those who thought that they could change the world by
reasoning and voting together. This is a book about democracy at
its best. Johnston recalls America's potential andunderscores the
paramount importance of civic activism on the local level."--Glenda
E. Gilmore, editor of "Who Were the Progesssives?" and author of
"Gender and Jim Crow"
"In this very exciting study, Johnston has truly broken new
ground. For all its theoretical sophistication, the book is written
with flair and is blessedly free of arcane jargon. The prose is
clear, powerful, and even jaunty at times. "The Radical Middle
Class" will become one of those rare and important books that no
scholar of U.S. class relations and politics will be able to
ignore."--Elaine Tyler May, author of "Homeward Bound: American
Families in the Cold War Era"
"Robert Johnston has written a terrific book, engaging one of
the most neglected and important topics in U.S. history: the
political history of the middle class. More successful than some of
his predecessors, he gives middle-class Americans the history they
so richly deserve. Powerfully argued, splendidly told, and
provocatively fresh, "The Radical Middle Class" marks a milestone
in the historiography of the American middle class. It is really
the first book of its kind."--Sven Beckert, Harvard University,
author of "The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the
Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie"
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