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Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (American Politics and Political Economy Series) (1st Edition) by Elizabeth Sanders Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-226-73477-3 / 0226734773 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73477-4 / 9780226734774 "Roots of Reform" offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. S |