“It is given to but few people to have the rare combination of power of insight and of interpretation possessed by Miss Addams. The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy expression which has characterized her work ... There is nothing of namby-pamby sentimentalism in Miss Addams’s idea of the peace movement. The volume is most inspiring and deserves wide recognition.”—Annals of the American Academy.
“No brief summary can do justice to Miss Addams’s grasp of the facts, her insight into their meaning, her incisive estimate of the strength and weakness alike of practical politicians and spasmodic reformers, her sensible suggestions as to woman’s place in our municipal housekeeping, her buoyant yet practical optimism.”—Examiner.
Democracy and Social Ethics
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“Its pages are remarkably—we were about to say refreshingly—free from the customary academic limitations...; in fact, are the result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems.
“The result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems ... No more truthful description, for example, of the ‘boss’ as he thrives to-day in our great cities has ever been written than is contained in Miss Addams’s chapter on ‘Political Reform.’... The same thing may be said of the book in regard to the presentation of social and economic facts.”—Review of Reviews.
“The book is startling, stimulating, and intelligent”—Philadelphia Ledger.
An Unusually Interesting Book
The Book of Woman’s Power
With an Introduction by IDA M. TARBELL