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"The Insatiable Maw Of Bureaucracy": Antistatism And Education Reform In The 1920s, Lynn Dumenil
"The Insatiable Maw Of Bureaucracy": Antistatism And Education Reform In The 1920s, Lynn Dumenil
Lynn Dumenil
Analyzes the struggle to create a federal department of education in the 1920s. Details proponents' arguments in favor of efficiency, national control, and cultural homogeneity. Contends that opponents organized against further expansion of federal power. Places the debate within the larger context of progressivism and nativism. (CH)