THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE
by Herbert David Croly
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About this eBook
- Author
- Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930
- Title
- The Promise of American Life
- Credits
- Produced by Sandra Bannatyne and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, Produced from images provided by the Million Book Project
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- JA: Political science: Political science
- Subject
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14422
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14422
- Release Date
- December 22, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE
- 2.BY HERBERT CROLY — New York — THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE
- 5.CHAPTER I — I — WHAT IS THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE? — II — HOW THE PROMISE HAS BEEN REALIZED — III — HOW THE PROMISE IS TO BE REALIZED
- 6.CHAPTER II — I — THE FEDERALISTS AND THE REPUBLICANS — II — FEDERALISM AND REPUBLICANISM AS OPPONENTS — III — FEDERALISM AND REPUBLICANISM AS ALLIES
- 7.CHAPTER III — I — THE DEMOCRATS AND THE WHIGS — II — THE NEW NATIONAL DEMOCRACY — III — THE WHIG FAILURE
- 8.CHAPTER IV — I — SLAVERY AND AMERICAN NATIONALITY — II — SLAVERY AS A DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION — III — LINCOLN AS MORE THAN AN AMERICAN
- 9.CHAPTER V — I — THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION AND ITS PROBLEMS — II — THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS SPECIALIST — III — THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL SPECIALIST — IV — THE LABOR UNION AND THE DEMOCRATIC TRADITION — V — GOVERNMENT BY LAWYERS — VI — AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
- 10.CHAPTER VI — I — REFORM AND THE REFORMERS — II — THE LOGIC OF REFORM — III — WILLIAM J. BRYAN AS A REFORMER — IV — WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME AS A REFORMER — V — WILLIAM R. HEARST AS A REFORMER — VI — THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A REFORMER — VII — THE REFORMATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- 11.CHAPTER VII — I — RECONSTRUCTION; ITS CONDITIONS AND PURPOSES — II — DEMOCRACY AND DISCRIMINATION — III — CONSTRUCTIVE DISCRIMINATION — IV — THE BRIDGE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND NATIONALITY
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — I — NATIONALITY AND DEMOCRACY; NATIONAL ORIGINS — II — THE IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT — III — NATIONALITY AND DEMOCRACY IN ENGLAND — IV — DEMOCRACY AND NATIONALITY IN FRANCE — V — THE RELATION OF GERMAN NATIONALITY TO DEMOCRACY — VI — MILITARISM AND NATIONALITY
- 13.CHAPTER IX — I — THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND ITS NATIONAL PRINCIPLE — II — NATIONALITY AND CENTRALIZATION — III — THE PEOPLE AND THE NATION
- 14.CHAPTER X — I — A NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY — II — A STABLE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM — III — DEMOCRACY AND PEACE
- 15.PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION — I — STATE INSTITUTIONAL REFORM — II — STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM — III — POSSIBILITIES OF EFFECTIVE STATE ACTION
- 16.PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION—( continued ) — II — THE RECOGNITION OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION — III — THE FRUITS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION — IV — TAXATION AND INEQUALITIES IN WEALTH — V — THE ORGANIZATION OF LABOR
- 17.CONCLUSIONS—THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATIONAL PURPOSES — I — INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE EDUCATION — II — CONDITIONS OF INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION — III — ATTEMPTS AT INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION — IV — MEANS OF INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION — V — CONSTRUCTIVE INDIVIDUALISM
- 18.INDEX
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