Age Quote by Erik Larson

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want…

— Jane Mayer

“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards…

— Robert Reich

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I…

— Mark Crispin Miller

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

— Barack Obama

One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are…

— Eban Goodstein

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials,…

— Michael Specter

“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the popular vote,…

— Jane Mayer

“Puritanism,” wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” Who”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United…

— Naomi Wolf

“Once in public office, Mellon helped define the 1920s as an era during which business succeeded in rolling back many of the Progressive Era’s…

— Jane Mayer

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have…

— Erik Larson