The autobiography of John R. Commons (1934)
 Myself
In the second half of this autobiography, Commons looks back on his career as a Progressive policy maker and University of Wisconsin professor. He provides many anecdotes about how key progressive legislation was passed, about the workings of the state Industrial Commission, and about university life. Although best-known today as the founder of labor history, Commons was in fact the archetypical public intellectual. His influence can be seen in nearly all the most important social reforms enacted at the state and national level, from Fighting Bob La Follette's first crusade to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
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