Reviews

book... brings to these issues as powerful and iconoclastic an intellect as the historical sciences possess. "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers" belongs on a shelf of social policy history classics.

claimed a place for women in social policy.

is so original and thorough and her critical intelligence is so strong...that her book will become the necessary starting point for all who study the evolution of social welfare policies in the United States.

new research and writing about the history of social provision in the United States.

A monumental study that will likely become a classic in the history of the modern welfare state.

"Protecting Soldiers and Mothers" is doubly important because it gives us new facts to think about and new perspectives within which to think about them...Skocpol's research is so original and thorough and her critical intelligence is so strong...that her book will become the necessary starting point for all who study the evolution of social welfare policies in the United States. -- Aaron Wildavsky "Journal of Policy History"

Complex, richly detailed...and grounded in extensive archival research...ÝSkocpol¨ has demonstrated that the polity and political institutions do matter...ÝA¨ powerful book that will surely generate a great deal of new research and writing about the history of social provision in the United States. -- Alex Keyssar "Nation"

Invites readers to remember a halcyon period in women's politics when--both in spite and because of women's formal political exclusion--extensively organized, politically active women united around motherhood and claimed a place for women in social policy. -- Gwendolyn Mink "Women's Review of Books"

Recognition that a kind of welfare state emerged even in America has hardly stilled the need to ask, once again, why the American variant came out so differently from those in western Europe. Skocpol's newest book... brings to these issues as powerful and iconoclastic an intellect as the historical sciences possess. "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers" belongs on a shelf of social policy history classics. -- Daniel T. Rodgers "Journal of Economic History"