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The Promise of American Life: Updated Edition
Herbert Croly
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Description for The Promise of American Life: Updated Edition
Paperback. Presents a classic that had a spectacular immediate impact on national politics. This book tells a history of America and its political ideals and an analysis of contemporary ills, from rampant economic inequality to unchecked corporate power. Series: The James Madison Library in American Politics. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 584.
The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been recognized ever since as a defining text of liberal reform. The book helped inspire Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, put Herbert Croly on a path to become the founding editor of the New Republic, and prompted Walter Lippmann to call him twentieth-century America's "first important political philosopher." The book is at once a history of America and its political ideals and ... Read more
The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been recognized ever since as a defining text of liberal reform. The book helped inspire Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, put Herbert Croly on a path to become the founding editor of the New Republic, and prompted Walter Lippmann to call him twentieth-century America's "first important political philosopher." The book is at once a history of America and its political ideals and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
The James Madison Library in American Politics
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691160689
SKU
V9780691160689
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About Herbert Croly
Herbert Croly (1869-1930) was founding editor of the New Republic. Franklin Foer is the editor of the New Republic and the author of How Soccer Explains the World.
Reviews for The Promise of American Life: Updated Edition
"I do not know when I have read a book which I felt profited me as much."—Theodore Roosevelt "Seminal for American political thinking."—Felix Frankfurter "[A] political classic which announced the end of the Age of Innocence with its romantic faith in American destiny and inaugurated the process of self-examination."—Walter Lippmann "As comprehensive and progressive a statement of American political ideas ... Read more