Better Homes In America: Plan Book For Demonstration Week October 9 To 14, 1922

By Marie Mattingly Meloney

Book Overview

A spark of ambition, a blueprint for change. Better Homes In America offers a vivid window into a moment when rolled-up sleeves and shared endeavour reshaped communities. This volume unfolds as a demonstration week manual and womens movement guide-part practical handbook, part manifesto. Its pages describe home economics outreach, household reform campaigns, and charity fundraising strategies with a practical, approachable warmth. Read as a living toolkit, it blends educational outreach resources with concrete steps for community organising and local civic engagement, revealing how ideas moved from parlour rooms into streets and schools across 1920s america. Historically, the book stands as a testament to progressive era reformers and the era's vibrant networks, including the public lectures and conversations that surrounded margaret sanger lectures. It is not merely a reprint but a documented lineage of social ambition, a cultural artefact that illuminates how reformers imagined a more equitable home, workplace, and public sphere. For casual readers and classical-literature collectors alike, this edition feels both intimate and monumental. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint-a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it invites readers to explore urban and rural america through the hands-on, hopeful work of a bygone era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354841368
• ISBN13: 9789354841361
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"