The 1919 Reconstruction Commission report summed up the whole Progressive reform movement

Evidence

What made the report written in the small apartment on Eighty-seventh Street a remarkable document was its clarion tone and its clarity. Viewed as part of the long reform movement in New York State, which set much of the tone for Progressivism in the United States, it was the summing up of this movement. The essence of the spirit of reform was captured in its 419 pages, so completely did the words they bore synthesize both its philosophy and its passion. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 452

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• XREF: connects to: World War I’s disillusionment killed progressivism’s reform mood