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The promise of American Life /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.