Jane Addams And The Dream Of American Democracy

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This major new interpretive biography--by one of America's foremost public intellectuals--eloquently examines Jane Addams's cultural and political influence on her time and ours. In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of "social feminism," her 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. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy is a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most extraordinary figures in American history.

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Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Sp elman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Politica l Ethics at the University of Chicago. She holds s even honorary degrees and in 1996 was elected to t he American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a contributing editor of The New Republic and the a uthor of more than nine books, including Women and War and Democracy on Trial, both published by Bas ic Books.