Jane Addams And The Dream Of American Democracy

A Life

BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN

Brief Description:
At the time of her death in 1935, she was America's best-known and most widely hailed female public figure. Addams had recently won the Nobel Peace Prize and was famous for her social work as the founder of Hull-House a settlement House in Chicago, which was not merely a poorhouse for immigrants struggling to become citizens; it was a major cultural center that hosted speeches and debates. She was a proto - feminist intellectual and major social activist . Jane Addams was raised as a Quaker and kept many of its values, but she later joined a Presbyterian church in Chicago and maintained her membership there.

Perseus 2202 328 PP. Paper

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