The Progressive Yankees by James Wright, with a Foreword by Elting E Morison - 1987: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906-1916

Dartmouth College Professor of History and later College President James Wright begins this volume at the start of the 20th Century, noting New Hampshire was "not in a state of crisis". Yet, there were moderate shifts away from "its earlier nineteenth century moorings of agriculture and rural homogeneous communities". Thus the stage is set for readers to embrace the forthcoming impacts in change. Themes are evidenced by a chart of Legislative differences between parties and noteworthy community-based iitiatives such as Old Home Days, plus increased emphasis on tourism. Extensive Notes, Bibliography, Index, and Personalities fill the century that followed the inroads being mapped out by Progressives in that century's early decade of change until 1916. Light shelf wear; jacket spine minor sun-fade.