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Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

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The Strange History of a Radical Idea Explained

The book titled "The Strange History of a Radical Idea" explores the idea of replacing the American institutionalism of fixed natural rights and limited powers with an organic evolutionary model of the Constitution./nThe progressive idea is to centralize power, expand the national power over people's lives, and facilitate the authority of experts to control the public sphere and politics./nProgressive historians of the mid 20th century missed the fundamental radicalism of the progressive idea, making their histories strange and incomplete./nMajor historical treatments and historians of the 20th century often do not mention this central phenomenon or mention it in passing, leaving it barely imprinted on the reader's mind.

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