TY - JOUR
AU - Keating, Ann Durkin
AB - Reviews of Books political considerations and self-interest, that elevated trial colleagues, who were banned from membership in the professional society until 1941. the common good. Administrative reform of govern­ Parascandola, using mainly primary sources, has ment, regulation of foods and drugs, factory regula­ of a scientific tion, school and transportation improvements, and written a model institutional history oversight could certainly be considered in the public discipline. He specifically disavows intending a com­ plete biography of Abel or giving "significant atten­ interest. And there were reformers who actively tion" to "pharmacological methods and theories" sought deep changes in each area. Some succeeded, (p. xv). The specific matters of research attention, but most efforts ended in compromise or even defeat. however, of Abel and other academic pharmacolo­ Progressives failed for several reasons, but primar­ gists, as well as governmental and industrial labora­ ily because they misjudged the appeal of their claim tories, receive succinct definition. Portraits of the to represent the larger public interest. Pegram argues principal figures and laboratory scenes illustrate the instead that twentieth-century politics was simulta­ neously undergoing a different transformation, into volume. what he calls "marketplace pluralism." Marked by JAMES HARVEY YOUNG Emory University partisanship and the 
TI - Jon C. Teaford. Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest. (Midwestern History and Culture.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1993. Pp. xii, 300. $39.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/99.2.664-a
DA - 1994-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/jon-c-teaford-cities-of-the-heartland-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-DXmQw4w3SN
SP - 664
EP - 665
VL - 99
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -