The Promise of American Life is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Herbert Croly, and also for scholars of political science who are discovering this key political work for the first time.
This book opposed aggressive unionization and supported economic planning to raise general quality of life. After reading this book, Theodore Roosevelt adopted the New Nationalism.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
The average American is nothing if not patriotic. "The Americans are filled," says Mr. Emil Reich in his "Success among the Nations," "with such an implicit and absolute confidence in...
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...
For this new edition, Franklin Foer has written a substantial foreword that puts the book in historical context and explains its continuing importance.
For this new edition, Franklin Foer has written a substantial foreword that puts the book in historical context and explains its continuing importance.
The Promise of American Life
The Promise of American Life
This book opposed aggressive unionization and supported economic planning to raise general quality of life.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., calls this book "a substantive and sensitive essay on the American political experience, worth examination not just for historical reasons but on its continuing merits as a diagnosis of the American condition.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., calls this book "a substantive and sensitive essay on the American political experience, worth examination not just for historical reasons but on its continuing merits as a diagnosis of the American condition.
The Promise of American Life
"The Promise of American Life" is a book by Herbert Croly that opposed aggressive unionization and supported economic planning to raise general quality of life in early twentieth-century America.
For Croly, the individualistic, libertarian America of the agrarian 18th and 19th centuries was gone, swept away by the forces of the industrial revolution, urbanization, centralization and modernity.
The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
The Promise of American Life
The Promise of American Life