American heroine : the life and legend of Jane Addams / Allen F. Davis
1973, First Edition. London : Oxford University Press. Very good cloth ex-library copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Library marks remain. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #477968
Physical description; xix,339p,[8]p of plates ill 21 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p.295-296. - Includes index. Contents; Formative years -- Despair and disillusionment -- A creative solution -- Founding a social movement -- Early years at Hull House -- A wider influence -- Jane Addams -- reformer -- A moral equivalent for war and juvenile delinquency -- Twenty years at Hull House -- Prostitution, woman suffrage, and progressivism -- Practical saint and the most useful American -- A pacifist in time of war -- From saint to villain -- The most dangerous woman in America -- The restoration of a saint. Subjects; Addams, Jane 1860-1935. Addams, Jane 1860-1935 Biography. Addams, Jane. Women social workers United States ; Biography. Women social reformers United States ; Biography. Women radicals Biography. Women pacifists Biography.
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