Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: From whence the American state?
  • 2. George William Curtis: Leading missionary for merit
  • 3. Charles Francis Adams, Jr.: The conscience of the Sunshine Commission
  • 4. Emory Upton: Prophet for public professionalism
  • 5. Jane Addams: The call from the inner light for social reform
  • 6. Frederick W. Taylor: Latter-day puritan as scientific manager
  • 7. Richard S. Childs: Minister for the council-manager plan
  • 8. Louis Brownlow: Apostle of administrative management
  • 9. Conclusion: American state creation as moral transformation
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic essay
  • Index.