7.25" (18.5 cm) Tall Later printing. Square, tight binidng. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have light overall handling wear. 330 pp. Hofstadter's classic study that connects the agrarian revolt of the Populists to the early 20th century Progressive movement, and follows connections between Progressivism and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1400070.jpg

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Richard Hostadter is a wonderful historian who paints with broad yet nimble strokes. He knows the details but does not suffocate the reader with them. His forte is grasping the fundamental beliefs and conditions that guide American political and social movements. Here he shows how "liberal" and "conservative" impulses interwined in the reform movements of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. I was especially intrigued with his argument about the myth of the idealized past, and how that myth becomes increasingly stronger even as it moves further away from the reality (take, for example, the image of 1950s small-town America in today's culture). If you believe, as I do, that the era in which we live has strong similarities to the American situation at the last turn of the century, then you will no doubt find this book valuable.

16mo over 5.75 - 6.75'' tall An overview of important events in American history from 1864-1969. Tight copy ! From Reconstruction 1864 to 1957. 447 pages. 8615

1st Printing. 16mo over 5.75 - 6.75'' tall Nice Tight Clean copy ! Front blank page creased. 422 pages. 8921

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