The Promise of American Life : Updated Edition /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Politik.
History.
Global History.
Culture and History of non-European Territories.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
United States > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"First published in 1909"--Colophone.
Physical Description:1 online resource (616 pages).
ISBN:9781400851232

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