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Redefining Professionals and Remaking Public Servants - Bruce A. Kimball, The “True Professional Ideal” in America: A History (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995). Pp. xiii, 429. $23.95 pb. - Patricia Wallace Ingraham, The Foundations of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Pp. xiii, 170. $45.00 cl., $14.95 pb.

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Bruce A. Kimball, The “True Professional Ideal” in America: A History (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995). Pp. xiii, 429. $23.95 pb.
Patricia Wallace Ingraham, The Foundations of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Pp. xiii, 170. $45.00 cl., $14.95 pb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr.
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 387 - 391
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1997

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1. For an early study that emphasizes state action rather than free markets, see the doctoral dissertation of our most eminent “consensus” historian, Ham, Louis, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought, Pennsylvania. 1776–1860 (Cambridge, 1948)Google Scholar. For a model study of competing ideals, see Cayton, Andrew R. L., Frontier Republic (Kent, Ohio, 1987).Google Scholar

2. See Furner, Mary O., Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization American Social Science, 1865–1905 (Lexington, Ky., 1975).Google Scholar