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With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and
the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle
class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle
class had enough influence on the country to start its own
revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on
farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day
except Sunday with tools that had changed very little for
centuries. Just three decades later, America was utterly
transformed into a diverse, urban, affluent, leisure-obsessed,
teeming multitude. This explosive change was accompanied by
extraordinary public-spiritedness as reformers--frightened by class
conflict and the breakdown of gender relations--abandoned their
traditional faith in individualism and embarked on a crusade to
remake other Americans in their own image.
One of the most important books to emerge from the Progressive era, The Promise of American Life offered a blueprint for a modern activist government that had enormous impact on intellectuals coming of age before World War I.
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