Joanna Avila
History 1302
T-TH, 5:30-6:50
Instructor: William Wooten
October 18, 2015
A Fierce Review of A Fierce Discontent A Fierce Discontent, written by Michael McGerr, is a brilliant historical overview of the Progressive Era. Like it says on the cover, it talks about the rise and the fall, the good and the bad. McGerr states his argument in the book when he wrote “…That progressivism created much of our contemporary political predicament. The epic of reform at the dawn of the twentieth century helps explain the less-than-epic politics at the dawn of the twenty-first. Progressivism, the creed of the crusading middle-class, offered the promise of utopianism--- and generated the inevitable letdown of unrealistic expectations.” (McGerr,
History 1302
T-TH, 5:30-6:50
Instructor: William Wooten
October 18, 2015
A Fierce Review of A Fierce Discontent A Fierce Discontent, written by Michael McGerr, is a brilliant historical overview of the Progressive Era. Like it says on the cover, it talks about the rise and the fall, the good and the bad. McGerr states his argument in the book when he wrote “…That progressivism created much of our contemporary political predicament. The epic of reform at the dawn of the twentieth century helps explain the less-than-epic politics at the dawn of the twenty-first. Progressivism, the creed of the crusading middle-class, offered the promise of utopianism--- and generated the inevitable letdown of unrealistic expectations.” (McGerr,