Description: "Watson has devoted a significant part of his career to studying the nature of American progressivism as it formed in the twentieth century, and this book represents his synthesis of the history of this idea ... [in which he examines] ... American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it"--
Brief description:
Bradley C. S. Watson teaches at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C.. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence and Progressive Challenges to the American Constitution: A New Republic.
Review Quotes:
"The book is more than an extended review of the literature . . .; it is an indictment. And it is hard not to agree with Watson's assessment that these historians were guilty of obscuring as much as they illuminated about the Progressives." --Law and Liberty