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Rich, Poor, and In Between: Class Identity and Power in U.S. Women's Politics, 1870s-1918 - Ruth Crocker. Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xviii + 526 pp. Introduction, illustrations, note on sources, select bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34712-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22045-5.

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Ruth Crocker. Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xviii + 526 pp. Introduction, illustrations, note on sources, select bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34712-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22045-5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Alexandra M. Nickliss
Alexandra M. Nickliss
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City College of San Francisco
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 526 - 529
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2008

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1 Nickliss, Alexandra M., “Phoebe Apperson Hearst's ‘Gospel of Wealth,’ 1883-1901,” Pacific Historical Review 71 (Nov. 2002): 575–605CrossRefGoogle Scholar;Waugh, Joan, The Lifa of Josephine Sbaw Lowell (Cambridge, MA, 1997)Google Scholar;Hewitt, Nancy A., Women's Activism and Social Change, Rochester, New York 1822-1872 (Ithaca, 1984)Google Scholar;McCarthy, Kathleen D., ed, Lady Bountiful Revisited: Women Philanthropy, and Power (New Brunswick, NJ, 1990)Google Scholar;Ginzberg, Lori D., Women and the Work of Benevolence (New Haven, 1990)Google Scholar;Brown, Victoria B., The Education of Jane Addams (Philadelphia, 2003)Google Scholar. In the interest of full disclosure, my name appears in the acknowledgments of Crocker's book as the result of our presenting papers on the same panel at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference in 1997.