Wiebe's Writing In The Search For Order: 1877-1920
Wiebe’s writing in The Search for Order: 1877-1920 is an elaboration of the elements that began the Progressive Period in the United States as well as the elements that comprised the period. Wiebe successfully weaves a storyline that gives great insight into these aspects, while also maintaining a style that is flowery and interesting. It is successful in the fact that it is chronological, well explained, and logically sound but has a couple of pitfalls in particular areas that are unnecessarily weak. Wiebe is surprisingly lacking in nuance within many of his assertions also the writing is excessively detail oriented in the wrong-sphere, for instance where more details on the importance of certain factors like geographical context could be