A Fierce Discontent Summary
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America 1870-1920
In A Fierce Discontent, McGerr bequeaths an astounding historical synopsis of the progressive era including subjects as, social action, urbanization, and social reform. Using the once individualistic middle class as his basis for argumentative purposes, McGerr breaks down the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Class relations play a big part in the paperback, focusing on the working class and the immensely wealthy “upper ten” percent. McGerr’s argument was that the progressive movement created a middle class with aspirations for a better democracy, but their ineffectiveness is the soul explanation on the weakness in the political world in the early twentieth century. The progressive era was a social movement that culminated the start of a political movement. The progressive movement was run by “progressives,” such as Jane …show more content…
He covers an important section in American history in a little under four-hundred pages. Covering subjects as social reform, the middle class, revolutions, urbanization, social action, and the American people as a whole. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement, shows the change that changed America for the better, or for the worse. The author proves he is a master of the subject he teaches. It seems as though the real argument of his book deals more with whom the Victorians were and why they urged for reform. McGerr’s book argues that the stresses of industrializing America fractured old ideologies and created new ones, including Progressivism and the Victorian middle-class. This Victorian middle-class attempted to answer the basic questions of society, and in doing so shaped this ideology of reform and compared and contrasted their answers to that of the viewpoints of the American people, and
In A Fierce Discontent, McGerr bequeaths an astounding historical synopsis of the progressive era including subjects as, social action, urbanization, and social reform. Using the once individualistic middle class as his basis for argumentative purposes, McGerr breaks down the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Class relations play a big part in the paperback, focusing on the working class and the immensely wealthy “upper ten” percent. McGerr’s argument was that the progressive movement created a middle class with aspirations for a better democracy, but their ineffectiveness is the soul explanation on the weakness in the political world in the early twentieth century. The progressive era was a social movement that culminated the start of a political movement. The progressive movement was run by “progressives,” such as Jane …show more content…
He covers an important section in American history in a little under four-hundred pages. Covering subjects as social reform, the middle class, revolutions, urbanization, social action, and the American people as a whole. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement, shows the change that changed America for the better, or for the worse. The author proves he is a master of the subject he teaches. It seems as though the real argument of his book deals more with whom the Victorians were and why they urged for reform. McGerr’s book argues that the stresses of industrializing America fractured old ideologies and created new ones, including Progressivism and the Victorian middle-class. This Victorian middle-class attempted to answer the basic questions of society, and in doing so shaped this ideology of reform and compared and contrasted their answers to that of the viewpoints of the American people, and