Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Modern America): 108 - Softcover

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Robyn Muncy is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 and the coauthor of Engendering America: A Documentary History, 1865 to the Present.

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"Josephine Roche finally has her due, thanks to Robyn Muncy's sparkling political biography. Policewoman and business owner, labor-relations and public-health pioneer, political insider and female outsider, Roche emerges warts and all as a slayer of inequality. More than an exercise in recovery, Relentless Reformer challenges conventional wisdom on the detrimental impact of private welfare on public programs as it charts the persistence of a democratic, state-centric progressivism over the course of the twentieth century."--Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Relentless Reformer brings to life one of this country's truly great twentieth-century feminists. A visionary who knew how to get things done, Josephine Roche worked with presidents, governors, and union leaders to achieve her ideal of industrial democracy. Robyn Muncy's masterful and page-turning biography should be required reading for all feminists and progressive reformers working today."--Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League

"Muncy's deft interpretation of Josephine Roche's life takes us on a fascinating journey that sheds new light on the tenacious struggles between Left and Right, the uneven history of labor progressivism, and the enduring importance of personal networks in American politics. Relentless Reformer is a lively and important addition to the history of American political development in the twentieth century."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900

"This vividly told story of the brilliant and indomitable Josephine Roche becomes, in historian Muncy's capable hands, an illuminating window on the persistence of the progressive impulse that emerged in the Progressive Era, influenced Roosevelt's New Deal, and, Muncy argues, helped shape Lyndon Johnson's Great Society."--Wendy Williams, professor emerita, Georgetown University Law Center

"Relentless Reformer is a winning combination of excellent political history and well-crafted biography. Josephine Roche was a central figure in the history of twentieth-century reform, long deserving of a biography and by extension a larger claim on public memory. Luckily, we have Robyn Muncy to help us make sense of that life."--Susan Ware, general editor of the American National Biography