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.
What Is the Promise of American Life?How the Promise has been realizedHow the Promise is to be realizedThe Federalists and the RepublicansFederalism and Republicanism as opponentsFederalism and Republicanism as alliesThe Democrats and the WhigsThe New National DemocracyThe Whig failureSlavery and American NationalitySlavery as a Democratic InstitutionLincoln as more than an AmericanThe Contemporary Situation and Its ProblemsThe Development of the Business SpecialistThe Development of the Political SpecialistThe Labor Union and the Democratic TraditionGovernment by LawyersAmerican Democracy and the Social ProblemReform and the ReformersThe Logic of ReformWilliam J. Bryan as a ReformerWilliam Travers Jerome as a ReformerWilliam R. Hearst as a ReformerTheodore Roosevelt as a ReformerThe Reformation of Theodore RooseveltReconstruction: Its Conditions and PurposesDemocracy and DiscriminationConstructive DiscriminationThe Bridge between Democracy and NationalityNationality and Democracy: National OriginsThe Implications of National DevelopmentNationality and Democracy in EnglandDemocracy and Nationality in FranceThe Relation of German Nationality to DemocracyMilitarism and NationalityThe American Democracy and Its National PrinciplesNationality and CentralizationThe People and the NationA National Foreign PolicyA stable American international systemDemocracy and PeaceProblems of Reconstruction: Part 1 - State Institutional ReformState Administrative ReformPossibilities of effective state actionProblems of Reconstruction: Part 2The recognition of Industrial OrganizationThe fruits of Industrial OrganizationTaxation and inequalities in wealthThe organization of LaborConclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes - Individual vs. Collective EducationConditions of individual emancipationAttempts at individual emancipationMeans of individual emancipationConstructive individualism
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