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Promise of American Life

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.

Year of Publication: 1909Genres: Political Science

Running Time: 18 hours 33 minutes 31 seconds

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