What Did the Writings of Thorstein Veblen, William James, and Herbert

question 42

Multiple Choice

What did the writings of Thorstein Veblen, William James, and Herbert Croly have in common?

• A) They formed the intellectual and ideological foundations of Social Darwinism.
• B) They were the most prominent examples of the intellectual assault on progressivism that began around 1920.
• C) They implicitly supported the need for far-reaching reforms of American society.
• D) They were misread by progressives to mean that socialism was the nation's only hope of social reform.
• E) They provided the intellectual and legal arguments used to support Jim Crow laws.

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