Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-322) and index.
Contents
Emerson and the progressive tradition -- Theodore Parker : "the battle of the nineteenth century" --Henry George : the great paradox -- Edward Bellamy : village utopian -- Henry Demarest Lloyd : the middle-class conscience -- William Dean Howells : the gentleman from Altruria -- Thorstein Veblen : moralist and rhetorician -- Theodore Roosevelt and Brooks Adams : pseudo-progressives -- In retrospect : 1912-1950 -- Notes on sources (p. 309-321).