Progressives at War: William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker, 1863-1941

Craig's study of McAdoo and Baker illuminates the aspirations and struggles of two prominent southern Democrats.

In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between the Civil War and World War II.

Both Baker and McAdoo migrated from the South to northern industrial cities and took up professions that had nothing to do with staple-crop agriculture. Both eventuall...