Progressive American Thought: Table of Contents of the Books About Progressivism Page. Now more than 700 books are listed.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Table of Contents of the Books About Progressivism Page. Now more than 700 books are listed.

TOPICS IN THE PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN THOUGHT "BOOKS ABOUT PROGRESSIVISM" PAGE

They are in this somewhat random order. The order probably will be changed eventually.
There now are more than 700 books in this Bibliography

General American History, Politics & Government
General Histories, First Progressive Era, Progressivism Defined
Law & The Constitution
Founding Fathers
Andrew Jackson
The Women's Movement, Feminism, & The Right to Vote
Populism
Socialism
Communism
Conservatism & Conservative Reaction to Progressivism
Business, Finance, Wall Street, Banking and Economics
Jm Crow, The Great Migration, Civil Rights, Racial Discrimination, Voting Rights
Religion & Philosophy
Society, Sociology and Social Change & Reform
Education
Foreign Policy
Journalism, Muckraking & General Non-Fiction
Novels & Fiction Writing
Labor Unions and Workers
1st World War
2nd World War
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
The War on Terror
The War on Drugs
The Roaring Twenties & Prohibition
The Great Crash, The Great Depression, The New Deal
John F. Kennedy, the "New Frontier" and the 1960s
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman & Post-War America
Dwight Eisenhower & the 1950s
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush & the Counter-Revolution
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Robert LaFollette & Wisconsin Progressivism
Other Progressive & Feminist Leaders
21st Century America

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Robert LaFollette

Click on his photo to see a film, with sound, of a campaign speech of Robert LaFollette in 1924, when he ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket, urging the people to be “aggressive” in resisting corporate power and influence. He received 17% of the vote and carried only Wisconsin. He died the next year. The father of Progressivism, Robert LaFollette was the first to use the word “Progressive” to describe the movement he started in Wisconsin. He first was Governor of Wisconsin and then was a Senator. From Wikipedia: “In 1957, a Senate Committee selected La Follette as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Robert Taft. A 1982 survey asking historians to rank the "ten greatest Senators in the nation's history" based on "accomplishments in office" and "long range impact on American history," placed La Follette first, tied with Henry Clay.”

Definition of Progressivism

In using the term “progressive” I mean what it meant in its early years, a philosophy of government, or governance, of the proper role of government in a democracy, and how public officials carry out their responsibilities to the people. Progressive government can be a force for good when it limits its activities to doing those things that need to be done but cannot be done by the people for themselves. The duty of public officials is to all the people, not to special interests.

Progressivism is not a synonym for liberalism, as it often is used today. Today's progressives probably are liberal in many, if not most, of their beliefs, but not all liberals are progressives. Although a descendant of classic liberalism, true progressivism is not ideological. It is pragmatic. It is neither liberal nor conservative, nor Democrat nor Republican. It is not capitalistic, nor socialistic. It seeks to make the existing system work, and that sometimes means protecting capitalism from itself by taming its most aggressive features through legislation and regulation.

Most of the early Progressives were Republicans; the later ones, Democrats. Progressives are problem-solvers and they will borrow ideas from both political parties, as well as from any other source, if the ideas present a practical solution to an important problem.

Basic pragmatic progressivism is more consistent with the American character than any other governmental philosophy, and its historic leaders have been - sometimes, for other reasons, only briefly - among the most popular leaders the nation ever has had. We can solve our major problems with another progressive period of government. I believe this can be made to happen with the right kind of leadership, programs and strategies, which I describe in this book.

- Introduction, Let's Do What Works and Call it Capitalism, by Dan Riker. Excerpts of this as-year unpublished book are posted on this blog, on http://www.danriker.blogspot.com and on http://www.dailykos.com.