The Chautauqua Moment

Author: Andrew Chamberlin Rieser
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0231126425

The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920 (Religion and American Culture)

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