Winner of the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics SocietyFinalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan InstituteOne of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016
"Illiberal Reformers is the perfect title for this slim but vital account of the perils of intellectual arrogance in dealing with explosive social issues."--David Oshinsky, New York Times Book Review
"A deft analysis. . . . [I]nsightful."--Amity Shlaes, Wall Street Journal
"Particularly timely . . . a superlative narrative about a pivotal era of American history."--American Thinker
"Compelling. . . . Leonard reveals the largely forgotten intellectual origins of many current controversies."--Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg View
"Excellent."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
"Explosively brilliant."--Jeffrey Tucker, Foundation for Economic Education
"[A] brief, well written book."--Herbert Hovenkamp, The New Rambler
"Elegant and persuasive. . . . Read Leonard."--Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Reason
"Those puzzled by the ease with which contemporary progressive political movements have turned against liberal values such as free speech will find much material for reflection in Leonard's lucid intellectual history of early twentieth-century progressivism. . . . [Illiberal Reformers] illuminates one phase in the centuries-long American struggle between the quest for liberal values and the impulse to build a godly commonwealth on the back of a strong state."--Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs
"Leonard combines rigorous research with lucid writing, presenting a work that is intellectually sound, relevant, and original."--Joseph Larsen, josephjonlarsen.com
"Illiberal Reformers is a great achievement and an important contribution to the revisionist historical literature."--Steven Hayward, National Review
"Illiberal Reformers is a downright frightening tale of how intellectual arrogance and a belief in one's own superiority leads to callous disregard for individual rights and dignity. Budding social engineers, whether the social justice warriors of the left or the theocratic conservatives of the right, should take note of this past and seriously reckon with it as they grope for state power to implement their messianic visions of the common good. But somehow I have a feeling they'll be too thoroughly convinced of their own moral rectitude to take seriously the lessons of the Progressive Era. Cautionary tales have a way of missing those who need them most."--Matthew Harwood, American Conservative
"To reflect on the significance of the Progressive era, Illiberal Reformers is a must read."--Pierre Lemieux, Regulation
"An excellent book and a cautionary tale for our own times."--Robert Whales, Choice
"Thomas Leonard has crafted an elegant, original, and cleverly argued account of core progressive ideas. Illiberal Reformers is deeply researched, and far ranging in the deployment of primary sources. Leonard has not just recycled material from the voluminous secondary literatures on eugenics, economics, immigration, race theory,' labor studies, and Darwinism. Instead he has invariably read key thinkers' publications and quotes from these primary documents, often to devastating effect. The book is a major achievement."--Desmond King, Perspectives on Politics
"One hopes that Leonard's fine volume will put an end to the reflexive habit of many to defend the early liberals, who when it came to people unlike themselves were with rare exception not liberal at all."--Stephen Carter, Bloomberg View
"A very important book that deserves to be read by every economist and academic, particularly those interested in American history, and especially those interested in the history of economic thought and the economics profession."--Patrick Newman, Independent Review
"The work of patient and pathbreaking economists like Leonard has opened up so much critical territory for those studying the history of economic knowledge from other disciplinary vantages. Illiberal Reformers places the consequential alliance between economics and eugenics in the Progressive Era in clear focus and suggests exciting new lines of inquiry for scholars interested in the tangled history of race, state, and market in modern America."--Daniel Platt, Journal of Cultural Economy
"A well-researched and clearly argued work which effectively ties changes in political economy to changes in popular thought, and shows how those changes to thinking effected the very bodies of people living in that society. A very accessible book."--Wesley R. Bishop, Labour-Le Travail
"Illiberal Reformers represents scholarship of the highest order."--Braham Dabscheck, Economic and Labour Relations Review
"Illiberal Reformers is a tour de force."--Leslie Jones, Quarterly Review
"Illiberal Reformers admirably reconstructs the much-repressed 'dark side' of social science progressivism."--Guy Alchon, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
"Illiberal Reformers is a masterly account of the intellectual currents that came to dominate American politics in the first half of the 20th century and, in many respects, dominate it still."--Michael M. Uhlmann, Claremont Review of Books
"In this fascinating book, Thomas C. Leonard explains how many leading progressives came to advocate for race-based immigration restrictions, eugenics, Social Darwinism, unequal pay for women, and even 'protecting women from employment' altogether."--Mark Joseph Stern, SlatePicks
"Illiberal Reformers tells a story that captures the mind, breaks the heart, and turns the stomach."--Art Carden, Cato Journal
"Required reading for anyone interested in the history of economics and U.S. politics."--Eric Scorsone & David Schweikhardt, Journal of Economic Issues
"Leonard's book offers a broad, forceful treatment and will have to be taken seriously by anyone seeking to understand and evaluate progressivism."--Kevin Schmiesing, Catholic Social Science Review
"Thomas Leonard's Illiberal Reformers is a significant contribution to the historiography of the Progressive Era, by one of the finest scholars working in the field."--Marco Cavalieri, Journal of The History of Economic Thought
"A masterly account of the intellectual currents that came to dominate American politics in the first half of the 20th century and, in many respects, dominate it still."--Michael M. Uhlmann, Claremont Review of Books
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