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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Item Description: | "First published in 1909"--Colophone. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (616 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400851232 |