The Promise of American Life : : Updated Edition / / Herbert Croly.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Updated edition with a New Foreword |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The James Madison Library in American Politics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1. What Is the Promise of American Life?
- 2. The Federalists and the Republicans
- 3. The Democrats and the Whigs
- 4. Slavery and American Nationality
- 5. The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems
- 6. Reform and the Reformers
- 7. Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes
- 8. Nationality and Democracy: National Origins
- 9. The American Democracy and Its National Principles
- 10. A National Foreign Policy
- 11. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1
- 12. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2
- 13. Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes
- Index