I didn't finish this because it was due back at the library. I enjoyed the clear-cut prose and the perspective it gave me about progressive changes in America. I especially found it valuable that Brown makes it clear that the history of the progressive movement happens in short periods of fast, vital change, followed by decades of defending that change and not moving forward. I guess it gives me hope that progressive change can still happen. So thanks, Senator Brown!! I am proud that you represent me.