Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy

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A Life

By Jean Bethke Elshtain
(Basic Books, 2002)

An account of Jane Addams’s legacy, her embrace of “social feminism” and challenge to the usual cleavage between “conservative” and “liberal,” and the growth of Chicago’s famed Hull House into a thriving cultural and intellectual center.

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