| FT-51375-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Douglas C. Rossinow | The Vital Margin: Interpreting Progressive Politics in Modern America | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Douglas | C. | Rossinow | | | | Metropolitan State University | St. Paul | MN | 55106-5000 | USA | 2003 | U.S. History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
The Vital Margin narrates the interaction of left and liberal politics in America over the course of more than a century, from Bryan to Nader. In doing so, this work reinterprets key issues that have absorbed generations of political historians, while also addressing issues of contemporary concern. The Vital Margin achieves a synthesis of the consensus and conflict schools of American political history. This work restores in all its complexity the combustible political relationship between American liberal reformers and left-wing radicals, surveying both their common ideological ground and their profound differences. It provides a new map locating the sources of democratic ideas in industrial America. |