Social Work Leaders Through History: Lives and LessonsVividly portraying the personal and professional lives of social work luminaries from the 19th to the present century, this text links their groundbreaking contributions in social work to current CSWE core competencies. The book focuses on leaders who shaped the field across modern American history the Progressive Era, the Great Society, the New Deal, the Postwar period, and others and examines their lives in the context of the social and historical