Men of good hope : a story of American progressives /
Daniel Aaron.
- New York : Oxford University Press, c1951.
- xiv, 329 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
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)