Muckraking + Southern Horrors and Other Writings + Twenty Years at Hull-house + 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism
- ISBN-10
- 0312583915
- ISBN-13
- 9780312583910
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10-01
- Publisher
- Bedford/st Martins
- Authors
- Jane Addams, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ellen F. Fitzpatrick
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