Herbert Croly of the New Republic

The Life and Thought of an American Progressive

David W. Levy

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400854592
• Print ISBN:
  9780691612690
  9780691047256

Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's penetrating analysis of American life and tells the story of a career that included his founding of one of the most influential journals of the period, The New Republic, in 1914 and his writing of The Promise of American Life (1909), a landmark in the history of American ideas.

Originally published in 1984.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• 1. "Jenny June" and "The Great Suggester"
• 2. Harvard College Versus David Croly
• 3. The Blank Years 1888-1909
• 4. The Promise of American Life
• 5. "Taking on the Form of the Sun God"
• 6. Progressive Democracy
• 7. A Journal of Opinion
• 8. Years of "Rare Opportunity" 1914—1918
• 9. Years of Despair, 1919-1930
• 10. Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• Index