A review by politizer
History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times by Mary Frances Berry

2.0

I didn't really get it. Most of it reads as a long list of examples and enumeration of events that happened, with little explanation or argumentation to show what point the reader is meant to take away from the examples and events. Each chapter ends with a very brief list of takeaways, but the connection between the takeaways and the examples is not always clear to me -- I didn't really follow how the examples served as evidence for the arguments she was making. Given Berry's credentials, I don't doubt that there are good arguments for all this stuff, but I could have used them spelled out more explicitly. Maybe I'm just not the target audience for this sort of book; I'm not exactly a newcomer to books on this topic, but I'm also not a seasoned organizer or anything like that, and maybe the arguments in this book are more clear and self-evident to someone who is.