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Jon Favreau referenced the title in a discussion about progressive history, noting that it examines a 1920s philanthropist whose massive donations helped set the stage for New Deal-era policies. He presented the book as a forthcoming work that sheds light on the origins of modern progressive reforms.
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Favreau described it as a forthcoming book about a 1920s philanthropist whose massive donations helped lay the groundwork for many New Dealera progressive policies.
John Fabian Witt, The Radical Fund, How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America about a very wealthy philanthropist who decided to donate all of his money to progressive causes back in the 1920s and sort of ceded the ground for a lot of the most progressive policies that we saw we would end up seeing in the New Deal.