Download or read book After Progress written by Norman Birnbaum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Birnbaum traces the decline and fall of social reform in Europe and America. He shows, for example, that William Howard Taft railed against socialism, by which he meant anything restricting the market.