Contents[1] [Volume Three]
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Parrington, Vernon Louis
Part I
The Rise of Liberalism[5]
1. [Movements of Liberalism: Three periods: 1790–1912; 1820–1860; 1903–1917. Since 1870 three attitudes towards democracy: (1) It has been achieved but the machine needs closer attention—civil service reform; (2) It has not been achieved because of the Constitution, but it must be achieved through remodeling political machinery; (3) No intelligent person desires it to be achieved. The movement of liberalism (1903–1917) a great stock-taking venture]
I. [Discoveries]
1. [That the democratic program has not been fulfilled]
2. [That the Constitution is not a democratic instrument, and was not intended to be—the clash between the Declaration and the Constitution]
3. [That while professing to create a democracy we have been erecting a plutocracy]
II. [Conclusions]
1. [The rediscovery of the relations between economics and politics]
2. [The necessity of subjecting property to the collective will]
3. [To that end the need of democratizing the machinery of government—political Progressivism. The application of the Hamiltonian state to the Jeffersonian program]
II. [Liberalism and the Journalists: The Muckraking Movement[6]]
I. [The Origins in the Nineties—Henry D. Lloyd’s Wealth vs. Commonwealth]
II. [The Gathering Clan: Lawson’s Frenzied Finance; Ida Tarbell; Ray Stannard Baker; McClure’s, The American, Hampton’s]
III. [The Left Wing]
1. [Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities]
2. [Charles Edward Russell, The Stories of Great Railroads]
3. [Gustavus Myers, Great American Fortunes]
4. [A. M. Simons, Social Forces in American History]
III. [Liberalism and Politics: The Movement of Progressivism]
I. [Robert La Follette—The State and Industry]
II. [Theodore Roosevelt—Middle-Class Liberal]
III. [Woodrow Wilson]
Part II
Liberalism and Letters
I. [Liberalism and the Intellectuals: The movement becomes critical]
I. [Walter E. Weyl—Radical]
II. [Thorstein Veblen—Social Economist]
III. [Charles A. Beard—Political Scientist[6]]
IV. [Herbert Croly—Political Critic]
V. [The Younger Intellectuals: Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank]
II. [Liberalism and Fiction: A shift from liberalism to radicalism—from politics to economics]
I. [Winston Churchill: From romance to syndicalism[7]]
II. [Robert Herrick: Academic radical[7]]
III. [Jack London: Revolutionist[8]]
IV. [Upton Sinclair: Social detective[8]]
III. [Liberalism and Realism]
I. [The Poets and Realism: Masters, Sandburg, Frost, Robinson]
II. [The Essay—Huneker]
III. [Theodore Dreiser—A Modern[9]]