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If the Progressives Were Advising Us Today, Should We Listen?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Linda Gordon
Affiliation:
New York University

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2002

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2 October 11, 2001, addendum: Talk of reducing the size of the federal government has subsided into near invisibility following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 and the cry for huge federal investment in reconstruction and security.

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