The Promise of American Life - Couverture souple

Croly, Herbert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555530621 ISBN 13 : 9781555530624

Editeur : Northeastern University Press, 1989

Synopsis

One of the most important books to emerge from the Progressive era, The Promise of American Life offered a blueprint for a modern activist government that had enormous impact on intellectuals coming of age before World War I.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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Biographie de l'auteur

Herbert David Croly (January 23, 1869 – May 17, 1930) was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Movement as an editor, and political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine The New Republic in early twentieth-century America. His political philosophy influenced many leading progressives including Theodore Roosevelt, as well as his close friends Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northeastern University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555530621
• ISBN 13: 9781555530624
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 468
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible