True heroine, false worshipper.(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, December, 2002 by Rodgers, Daniel T.
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Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy By dean Bethke Elshtain. Basic Books, 336 pages, $20.00
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THE APPELLATION "ST. JANE" came early to Jane Addams. Florence Kelley, one of her closest comrades during the early years of settlement work at Hull House, once told Addams that if another woman called her a saint again, "I'd show her my teeth, and if that didn't convince her, I would bite her." But the label stuck. What else was one to do with Addams, a woman so out of place, so disturbing to the conventional wisdom, but consign her to the category of a ...
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