American Heroine

The Life and Legend of Jane Addams

By: Allen F. Davis

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Paperback | 25 February 2000

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Books about Jane Addams—founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history—come and go, but Allen Davis''s account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography. "A distinguished work of scholarship, mature, incisive....Davis has written not only the best study of Jane Addams but perhaps the best biography of any great American woman."—William L. O''Neill. "The first book that systematically and persuasively separates the real woman from the myth. It will be indispensable to anyone interested in the subject or the period."—Rosemarie Scherman, New York Times Book Review. "An important work, especially valuable for its cultural analysis and its sane, careful approach to the biographer''s task."—Alonzo L. Hamby, History. "Detailed and well researched, this account...is the best thing written on Jane Addams I have seen."—Doris Grumbach, New Republic. "An impressively researched, perceptive biography." —Gertrude Benson, Philadelphia Inquirer.

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A truly outstanding and detailed biography!--Midwest Book Review

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction, Second Edition	p. xvii
List of Illustrations	p. xvii
Formative Years	p. 3
Despair and Disillusionment	p. 24
A Creative Solution	p. 38
Founding a Social Movement	p. 52
Early Years at Hull House	p. 67
A Wider Influence	p. 92
Jane Addams--Reformer	p. 110
A Moral Equivalent for War and Juvenile Delinquency	p. 135
Twenty Years at Hull House	p. 157
Prostitution, Woman Suffrage, and Progressivism	p. 176
Practical Saint and the Most Useful American	p. 198
A Pacifiist in Time of War	p. 212
From Saint to Villain	p. 232
The Most Dangerous Woman in America	p. 251
The Restoration of a Saint	p. 282
Bibliographical Notes	p. 295
Footnotes	p. 297
Index	p. 329
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