Jane Addams and Her Vision of America

For courses in U.S. history (after 1865), biography, 20th century America (1900 - 2000), history of women in America (since 1865), history of African-Americans, American labor history and the Civil Rights Movement (1940 - 1968).

A presentation of Jane Addams’ story in clear, non-technical language, focusing primarily on her philosophy and achievements as well as their significance in her own time and ours.

Jane Addams devoted her life to working for social change. Today, more than 70 years after her death, she still commands our attention because of her coherent and humane social vision and the manifold ways in which she worked to apply that vision to the problems of her time. Sandra Opdycke’s biography brings Addams’ life and work alive for students and general readers in a way no author has before.

Paperback, brief and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.