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Promise of American Life Updated Edition

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ISBN-10: 0691160686

ISBN-13: 9780691160689

Edition: 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Herbert Croly, Franklin Foer

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The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular immediate 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 ideals and an analysis of contemporary ills, from rampant economic inequality to unchecked…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 4.80" wide x 7.95" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English