1st Edition

The Promise of American Life

By Herbert Croly Copyright 1993
506 Pages
by Routledge

508 Pages
by Routledge

502 Pages
by Routledge

The Promise of American Life was first published in 1909. It had an immediate and extensive influence on what social historians call the Progressive Era. At the dawn of the New Deal Era, Felix Frankfurter wrote that Croly's book became "a reservoir for all political writings after its publication. Roosevelt's New Nationalism was countered by Wilson's New Freedom, but both derived from Croly."... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Chapter One; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI Problems of Reconstruction; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII Conclusions — The Individual and the National Purposes

Biography

Croly, Herbert