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The Promise of American Life

Herbert Croly (1869 - 1930)

The book is said to "offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs" that "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate capitalism and from limited government to the welfare state." By Croly’s death in 1930, only 7,500 copies of The Promise of American Life had been sold. Despite this, the book was immensely influential, even influencing Theodore Roosevelt to adopt the platform of The New Nationalism.

Genre(s): Political Science

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	What Is the Promise of American Life?	progressingamerica	00:16:01
Play 02	How the Promise has been realized	progressingamerica	00:22:01
Play 03	How the Promise is to be realized	progressingamerica	00:24:39
Play 04	The Federalists and the Republicans	progressingamerica	00:27:22
Play 05	Federalism and Republicanism as opponents	progressingamerica	00:19:01
Play 06	Federalism and Republicanism as allies	progressingamerica	00:13:23
Play 07	The Democrats and the Whigs	progressingamerica	00:07:48
Play 08	The New National Democracy	progressingamerica	00:25:43
Play 09	The Whig failure	progressingamerica	00:14:32
Play 10	Slavery and American Nationality	progressingamerica	00:19:34
Play 11	Slavery as a Democratic Institution	progressingamerica	00:21:12
Play 12	Lincoln as more than an American	progressingamerica	00:25:14
Play 13	The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems	progressingamerica	00:14:18
Play 14	The Development of the Business Specialist	progressingamerica	00:28:05
Play 15	The Development of the Political Specialist	progressingamerica	00:21:15
Play 16	The Labor Union and the Democratic Tradition	progressingamerica	00:13:15
Play 17	Government by Lawyers	progressingamerica	00:15:58
Play 18	American Democracy and the Social Problem	progressingamerica	00:05:40
Play 19	Reform and the Reformers	progressingamerica	00:17:22
Play 20	The Logic of Reform	progressingamerica	00:16:59
Play 21	William J. Bryan as a Reformer	progressingamerica	00:14:06
Play 22	William Travers Jerome as a Reformer	progressingamerica	00:09:03
Play 23	William R. Hearst as a Reformer	progressingamerica	00:09:15
Play 24	Theodore Roosevelt as a Reformer	progressingamerica	00:12:33
Play 25	The Reformation of Theodore Roosevelt	progressingamerica	00:09:38
Play 26	Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes	progressingamerica	00:24:27
Play 27	Democracy and Discrimination	progressingamerica	00:18:56
Play 28	Constructive Discrimination	progressingamerica	00:34:37
Play 29	The Bridge between Democracy and Nationality	progressingamerica	00:18:31
Play 30	Nationality and Democracy: National Origins	progressingamerica	00:17:41
Play 31	The Implications of National Development	progressingamerica	00:20:20
Play 32	Nationality and Democracy in England	progressingamerica	00:22:09
Play 33	Democracy and Nationality in France	progressingamerica	00:15:37
Play 34	The Relation of German Nationality to Democracy	progressingamerica	00:20:27
Play 35	Militarism and Nationality	progressingamerica	00:26:44
Play 36	The American Democracy and Its National Principles	progressingamerica	00:18:03
Play 37	Nationality and Centralization	progressingamerica	00:17:34
Play 38	The People and the Nation	progressingamerica	00:22:21
Play 39	A National Foreign Policy	progressingamerica	00:27:54
Play 40	A stable American international system	progressingamerica	00:18:40
Play 41	Democracy and Peace	progressingamerica	00:15:31
Play 42	Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1 - State Institutional Reform	progressingamerica	00:46:30
Play 43	State Administrative Reform	progressingamerica	00:25:05
Play 44	Possibilities of effective state action	progressingamerica	00:16:56
Play 45	Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2	progressingamerica	00:15:02
Play 46	The recognition of Industrial Organization	progressingamerica	00:29:14
Play 47	The fruits of Industrial Organization	progressingamerica	00:31:10
Play 48	Taxation and inequalities in wealth	progressingamerica	00:10:50
Play 49	The organization of Labor	progressingamerica	00:32:29
Play 50	Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes - Individual vs. Collective Education	progressingamerica	00:25:26
Play 51	Conditions of individual emancipation	progressingamerica	00:32:09
Play 52	Attempts at individual emancipation	progressingamerica	00:15:21
Play 53	Means of individual emancipation	progressingamerica	00:35:48
Play 54	Constructive individualism	progressingamerica	00:34:02

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