The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900-1915

by Christopher Cyphers

Founded in 1900, the National Civic Federation (NCF), a broad-based, nongovernmental social and policy reform organization, emerged throughout the Progressive Era as one of the nation's most powerful policy research and lobbying groups. Amidst the strong demand by rank-and-file Americans for economic and social reform, the NCF proposed that the government begin to assume a more prominent role in managing the nation's economy and providing for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973271
• ISBN13: 9780275973278
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"