Abstract
ONE OF THE STRIKING ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THIS EXCELLENT STUDY IS the way it consistently maintains interest even as it tracks the activities of some of the most boring people imaginable. John Jordan refuses settle for the cheap thrills and easy excitements that breed on conspiracy narratives of mastery and control. True, the headnote Jordan's introduction suggests the possibility of such plots, drawn as it is from the cautionary text of We by the Russian avant-garde novelist Evgeny Zamyatin. Elite troops take as their mission the call to subjugate the beneficent yoke of reason the unknown beings who live on other planets; if there is any resistance the plan bring mathematically faultless happiness the cosmic community, our duty will be force them be happy.' Jordan strips all melodrama from his account of the attempts by a variety of social engineers impose the beneficent yoke of reason on the unknown beings who made up America's populace in the years between the Progressive Era and the close of the New Deal. Demonization is absent from the meticulously detailed minibiographies of the men who led the
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