A Spectre is Haunting America: An Interpretation of Progressivism

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Alan Stone

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The Progressive Era and the eighteen-nineties immediately preceding it have probably been the foci of more superior scholarship than any other periods in American history. Yet, as the volume of research has increased, the divisions in interpreting the data are sharper now than ever before.

Volume 3, Number 3 (1979)

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Stone, Alan. “A Spectre is Haunting America: An Interpretation of Progressivism.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 3, No.3 (1979): 239-260.

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