THE AGE OF REFORM
America's Progressive Era, 1900–1920By Clarence Bradford Whitmore
Length7h 27m
About this audiobook
Ida Tarbell took on Standard Oil — and won.** Upton Sinclair turned a meatpacking exposé into a national food-safety law. Theodore Roosevelt smashed monopolies. Jane Addams reinvented social work. Women won the vote. The country invented the income tax, the Federal Reserve, the national parks, and the eight-hour day — all in twenty years.
You sense modern America was built in the Progressive Era — but the textbook reduces the most reform-minded decades in U.S. history to a list of names and amendments. You're left with no real understanding of how a handful of journalists, presidents, organizers, and activists actually beat the corporations, the bosses, and the corrupt machines. If you care about reform today, about how change really happens, you need the full story of how it was done.
This book delivers it.
THE AGE OF REFORM: America's Progressive Era, 1900–1920** brings the era roaring back — the muckrakers, the trust-busters, the suffragettes, and the settlement houses — told as the page-turning fight it truly was.
Inside, you will discover:
HOW the muckrakers — Tarbell, Sinclair, Steffens, Riis — used journalism to topple corporate giants
WHY Theodore Roosevelt's trust-busting and conservation revolution shaped modern government
WHAT really happened in the fight for women's suffrage, child-labor laws, and the income tax
HOW the Progressive Era founded the Federal Reserve, food safety, and the national parks
WHY the reforms succeeded — and where they tragically failed on race and civil rights
This isn't a parade of dates. It's the Age of Reform as the human drama of organized citizens beating concentrated power.
The Progressives changed America. Learn how — and what we can still learn from them.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Poetry, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20Chapter 13: William Howard Taft — The Reluctant Progressive
2Author’s Note
21Chapter 14: The Bull Moose Campaign — Roosevelt's Return and the Party Split
3Prologue: The Muckraker's America
22Chapter 15: Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
4PART ONE: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE SQUARE DEAL (1901–1909)
23Chapter 16: The Constitutional Amendments — Income Tax, Senators, Prohibition, Suffrage
5Chapter 1: The Accidental President — Theodore Roosevelt Takes Power
24PART FIVE: WILSON'S AMERICA (1913–1917)
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6Chapter 2: Trust-Busting — Roosevelt and the Corporations
25Chapter 17: The Federal Reserve — Reforming American Finance
7Chapter 3: Conservation — Roosevelt and the American Land
26Chapter 18: Labor and the Law — The Clayton Act and Workers' Rights
8Chapter 4: The Square Deal — Labor, Capital, and the Roosevelt Presidency
27Chapter 19: Race in the Progressive Era — The Limits of Reform
9PART TWO: THE MUCKRAKERS (1900–1914)
28Chapter 20: The New Woman — Feminism, Work, and the Changing American Family
10Chapter 5: Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil — Journalism as Reform
29PART SIX: THE PROGRESSIVE LEGACY (1917–PRESENT)
11Chapter 6: The Jungle — Upton Sinclair and the Meatpacking Exposé
30Chapter 21: World War I and the End of Progressivism
12Chapter 7: Lincoln Steffens and the Shame of the Cities
31Chapter 22: Prohibition — The Progressive Crusade Gone Wrong
13Chapter 8: Jacob Riis and the Photography of Poverty
32Chapter 23: The Progressive Legacy — What Survived and What Didn't
14PART THREE: THE REFORM MOVEMENT (1900–1916)
33Chapter 24: The Progressive Tradition in American Politics
15Chapter 9: The Wisconsin Idea — Robert La Follette and State Reform
34Epilogue: What the Progressives Left Behind
16Chapter 10: The Settlement House Movement — Jane Addams and Hull House
35Acknowledgments
17Chapter 11: Women's Suffrage — The Long March to the Nineteenth Amendment
36Selected Bibliography
18Chapter 12: The NAACP — W. E. B. Du Bois and the Fight for Civil Rights
37About the Author
19PART FOUR: TAFT AND THE PARTY SPLIT (1909–1913)
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