Promise of American Life
Herbert Croly
Play
Length 18 h 34 min
Chapters 54
First published 1909
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.
Chapters
1
What Is the Promise of American Life? Read by progressingamerica 16:01
2
How the Promise has been realized Read by progressingamerica 22:01
3
How the Promise is to be realized Read by progressingamerica 24:39
4
The Federalists and the Republicans Read by progressingamerica 27:22
5
Federalism and Republicanism as opponents Read by progressingamerica 19:01
6
Federalism and Republicanism as allies Read by progressingamerica 13:23
7
The Democrats and the Whigs Read by progressingamerica 7:48
8
The New National Democracy Read by progressingamerica 25:43
9
The Whig failure Read by progressingamerica 14:32
10
Slavery and American Nationality Read by progressingamerica 19:34
11
Slavery as a Democratic Institution Read by progressingamerica 21:12
12
Lincoln as more than an American Read by progressingamerica 25:14
13
The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems Read by progressingamerica 14:18
14
The Development of the Business Specialist Read by progressingamerica 28:05
15
The Development of the Political Specialist Read by progressingamerica 21:15
16
The Labor Union and the Democratic Tradition Read by progressingamerica 13:15
17
Government by Lawyers Read by progressingamerica 15:58
18
American Democracy and the Social Problem Read by progressingamerica 5:40
19
Reform and the Reformers Read by progressingamerica 17:22
20
The Logic of Reform Read by progressingamerica 16:59
21
William J. Bryan as a Reformer Read by progressingamerica 14:06
22
William Travers Jerome as a Reformer Read by progressingamerica 9:03
23
William R. Hearst as a Reformer Read by progressingamerica 9:15
24
Theodore Roosevelt as a Reformer Read by progressingamerica 12:33
25
The Reformation of Theodore Roosevelt Read by progressingamerica 9:38
26
Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes Read by progressingamerica 24:27
27
Democracy and Discrimination Read by progressingamerica 18:56
28
Constructive Discrimination Read by progressingamerica 34:37
29
The Bridge between Democracy and Nationality Read by progressingamerica 18:31
30
Nationality and Democracy: National Origins Read by progressingamerica 17:41
31
The Implications of National Development Read by progressingamerica 20:20
32
Nationality and Democracy in England Read by progressingamerica 22:09
33
Democracy and Nationality in France Read by progressingamerica 15:37
34
The Relation of German Nationality to Democracy Read by progressingamerica 20:27
35
Militarism and Nationality Read by progressingamerica 26:44
36
The American Democracy and Its National Principles Read by progressingamerica 18:03
37
Nationality and Centralization Read by progressingamerica 17:34
38
The People and the Nation Read by progressingamerica 22:21
39
A National Foreign Policy Read by progressingamerica 27:54
40
A stable American international system Read by progressingamerica 18:40
41
Democracy and Peace Read by progressingamerica 15:31
42
Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1 - State Institutional Reform Read by progressingamerica 46:30
43
State Administrative Reform Read by progressingamerica 25:05
44
Possibilities of effective state action Read by progressingamerica 16:56
45
Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2 Read by progressingamerica 15:02
46
The recognition of Industrial Organization Read by progressingamerica 29:14
47
The fruits of Industrial Organization Read by progressingamerica 31:10
48
Taxation and inequalities in wealth Read by progressingamerica 10:50
49
The organization of Labor Read by progressingamerica 32:29
50
Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes - Individual vs. Collective Education Read by progressingamerica 25:26
51
Conditions of individual emancipation Read by progressingamerica 32:09
52
Attempts at individual emancipation Read by progressingamerica 15:21
53
Means of individual emancipation Read by progressingamerica 35:48
54
Constructive individualism Read by progressingamerica 34:02
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens gutenberg.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
