The progressive era

The current relationship between the modern state and the economy has its roots in the Progressive Era. -- From the Introduction by Patrick Newman Progressivism brought the triumph of institutionalized racism, the disfranchising of blacks in the South, the cutting off of immigration, the building up of trade unions by the federal government into a tripartite big government, big business, big unions alliance, the glorifying of military virtues and conscription, and a drive for American expansion abroad. In short, the Progressive Era ushered the modern American politico-economic system into being. -- From the Preface by Murray N. Rothbard.

Rothbard's posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. It will soon be the must read study of this dreadful time in our past. From the Foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Railroads: the first big business and the failure of the cartels -- Chapter 2: Regulating the railroads -- Chapter 3: Attempts at monopoly in American industry -- Chapter 4: The third party system: pietists vs. liturgicals -- Chapter 5: The democratic triumph of 1892 -- Chapter 6: 1896: The collapse of the third party system and of laissez-faire politics -- Chapter 7: Theodore Roosevelt: the first progressive, part I -- Chapter 8: Theodore Roosevelt: the first progressive, part II -- Chapter 9: The national civic federation: big business organized for progressivism -- Chapter 10: The progressive era and the family -- Chapter 11: Origins of the welfare state in America -- Chapter 12: War collectivism in World War I -- Chapter 13: World War I as fulfillment: power and the intellectuals -- Chapter 14: The federal reserve as a cartelization device: the early years, 1913-1930 -- Chapter 15: Herbert Hoover and the myth of Laissez-faire.