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Author Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941-

Title Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy : a life / Jean Bethke Elshtain.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  361 Ad21Be 2002    ---  Available
Description xxii, 329 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-318) and index.
Contents The snare of preparation -- One pilgrim's progress -- Imagining Hull-House -- The family claim and the social claim -- Compassion without condescension : the child and the city -- Woman's remembering heart -- Life has marked us with its slow stain : the war at home -- Solidarity which will not waver : Jane Addams in war and peace.
Subject Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Women social workers -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0465019137 (pbk.)
0465019129 (alk. paper)

 
    
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