The Age of Reform Author:Richard Hofstadter From Bryan to F.D.R. This book is a landmark in American political thought. It explains the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890to1940-with startling and stimulating results. It searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers, the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities whic... more »h they had to compromise.« less