xii, 132 pages, 8 pages of plates : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-121) and index

The beginnings of reform -- The realigning election of 1894 -- The varieties of reform -- The segregated South -- McKinley versus Bryan in 1896 -- The war with Spain and its consequences -- The 1900 presidential election -- The trust problem -- The states respond -- Muckraking reporters -- Reform in the cities -- The advent of Theodore Roosevelt -- The Square Deal -- The progressive agenda -- The rise of regulation -- Roosevelt's regulatory campaign -- Rising public support for reform -- Roosevelt's regulatory program -- Roosevelt and the Muckrakers -- The 1906 elections -- The Brownsville Raid and race relations -- The presidential contest in 1908 -- Taft and his problems -- Revising the tariff -- The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy -- The Republicans divided -- Roosevelt and the New Nationalism -- The election of 1910 -- The quickening tempo of reform -- The race for the White House in 1912 -- Taft and Roosevelt split -- The rise of Woodrow Wilson -- The New Nationalism and the New Freedom -- Reform adopted -- Prohibition and women suffrage -- Wilson as President -- Enacting the New Freedom -- Reforming the banking system -- Republican revival and progressive decline -- Corporate reform -- The 1914 elections and beyond -- War and the climax of reform

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