The Promise of American Life


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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. (18 hr 33 min)

Chapters

What Is the Promise of American Life? 16:01 Read by progressingamerica
How the Promise has been realized 22:01 Read by progressingamerica
How the Promise is to be realized 24:39 Read by progressingamerica
The Federalists and the Republicans 27:22 Read by progressingamerica
Federalism and Republicanism as opponents 19:01 Read by progressingamerica
Federalism and Republicanism as allies 13:23 Read by progressingamerica
The Democrats and the Whigs 7:48 Read by progressingamerica
The New National Democracy 25:43 Read by progressingamerica
The Whig failure 14:32 Read by progressingamerica
Slavery and American Nationality 19:34 Read by progressingamerica
Slavery as a Democratic Institution 21:12 Read by progressingamerica
Lincoln as more than an American 25:14 Read by progressingamerica
The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems 14:18 Read by progressingamerica
The Development of the Business Specialist 28:05 Read by progressingamerica
The Development of the Political Specialist 21:15 Read by progressingamerica
The Labor Union and the Democratic Tradition 13:15 Read by progressingamerica
Government by Lawyers 15:58 Read by progressingamerica
American Democracy and the Social Problem 5:40 Read by progressingamerica
Reform and the Reformers 17:22 Read by progressingamerica
The Logic of Reform 16:59 Read by progressingamerica
William J. Bryan as a Reformer 14:06 Read by progressingamerica
William Travers Jerome as a Reformer 9:03 Read by progressingamerica
William R. Hearst as a Reformer 9:15 Read by progressingamerica
Theodore Roosevelt as a Reformer 12:33 Read by progressingamerica
The Reformation of Theodore Roosevelt 9:38 Read by progressingamerica
Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes 24:27 Read by progressingamerica
Democracy and Discrimination 18:56 Read by progressingamerica
Constructive Discrimination 34:37 Read by progressingamerica
The Bridge between Democracy and Nationality 18:31 Read by progressingamerica
Nationality and Democracy: National Origins 17:41 Read by progressingamerica
The Implications of National Development 20:20 Read by progressingamerica
Nationality and Democracy in England 22:09 Read by progressingamerica
Democracy and Nationality in France 15:37 Read by progressingamerica
The Relation of German Nationality to Democracy 20:27 Read by progressingamerica
Militarism and Nationality 26:44 Read by progressingamerica
The American Democracy and Its National Principles 18:03 Read by progressingamerica
Nationality and Centralization 17:34 Read by progressingamerica
The People and the Nation 22:21 Read by progressingamerica
A National Foreign Policy 27:54 Read by progressingamerica
A stable American international system 18:40 Read by progressingamerica
Democracy and Peace 15:31 Read by progressingamerica
Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1 - State Institutional Reform 46:30 Read by progressingamerica
State Administrative Reform 25:05 Read by progressingamerica
Possibilities of effective state action 16:56 Read by progressingamerica
Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2 15:02 Read by progressingamerica
The recognition of Industrial Organization 29:14 Read by progressingamerica
The fruits of Industrial Organization 31:10 Read by progressingamerica
Taxation and inequalities in wealth 10:50 Read by progressingamerica
The organization of Labor 32:29 Read by progressingamerica
Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes - Individual vs. Collecti… 25:26 Read by progressingamerica
Conditions of individual emancipation 32:09 Read by progressingamerica
Attempts at individual emancipation 15:21 Read by progressingamerica
Means of individual emancipation 35:48 Read by progressingamerica
Constructive individualism 34:02 Read by progressingamerica