American Heroine The Life and Legend of Jane Addams
by Davis, Allen F.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-02-25
Publisher(s): Ivan R. Dee
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Summary
Allen Davis' account of Jane Addams' life, work and ideas remains the standard biography.
Author Biography
Allen F. Davis is emeritus professor of history at Temple University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction, Second Edition | p. xvii |
| List of Illustrations | p. xvii |
| Formative Years | p. 3 |
| Despair and Disillusionment | p. 24 |
| A Creative Solution | p. 38 |
| Founding a Social Movement | p. 52 |
| Early Years at Hull House | p. 67 |
| A Wider Influence | p. 92 |
| Jane Addams--Reformer | p. 110 |
| A Moral Equivalent for War and Juvenile Delinquency | p. 135 |
| Twenty Years at Hull House | p. 157 |
| Prostitution, Woman Suffrage, and Progressivism | p. 176 |
| Practical Saint and the Most Useful American | p. 198 |
| A Pacifiist in Time of War | p. 212 |
| From Saint to Villain | p. 232 |
| The Most Dangerous Woman in America | p. 251 |
| The Restoration of a Saint | p. 282 |
| Bibliographical Notes | p. 295 |
| Footnotes | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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