Volume 53, Number 8 · May 11, 2006
Founding Mother
By Alan Ryan
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
by Louise W. Knight
University of Chicago Press, 582 pp., $35.00
Jane Addams was one of the most famous women in the United States during the first third of the twentieth century. In 1889, she founded Hull House, the best known of all the settlement house experiments, and in the years following became a leading figure in Progressive Era campaigns for uncorrupt city government and female suffrage, and a founder of the NAACP and the ACLU. For the last two decades of her life, she had a second career as a campaigner for world peace. Admirers venerated her as a saint; detractors saw the saintly image as a cloak for a sinister radicalism.
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