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Progressivism brought the triumph of institutionalized racism, the disfranchising of blacks in the South, the cutting off of immigration, the building up of trade unions by the federal government into a tripartite of big government, big business, big union alliance, the glorifying of military virtues and conscription, and a drive for American expansion abroad. In short, the Progressive era ushered the modern American politico-economic system into being.
From the Preface by Murray N. Rothbard
- Foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
- Introduction by Patrick Newman
- Preface by Murray N. Rothbard
- 1. Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels
- 2. Regulating the Railroads
- 3. Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry
- 4. The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals
- 5. The Democratic Triumph of 1892
- 6. 1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics
- 7. Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part I
- 8. Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part II
- 9. The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism
- 10. The Progressive Era and the Family
- 11. Origins of the Welfare State in America
- 12. War Collectivism in World War I
- 13. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
- 14. The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930
- 15. Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire
- Bibliography