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'''Herbert Croly''', (1869-1930) a leader of the [[Progressive Movement]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Sidney |url=http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/03/herbert-croly-progressive-apostle |title=Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism |work=[[Heritage Foundation]] |date=March 14, 2013 }}</ref> as an editor, and political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine [[The New Republic]]. His book, ''The Promise of American Life'' (1909) looked to the conservative spirit of effective government as espoused by [[Alexander Hamilton]], combined with  the democracy of [[Thomas Jefferson]]. The book was one of the most influential books in American political history, shaping the ideas of many Progressives such as [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. It also influenced the later [[New Deal]]. Calling themselves "the new nationalists" Croly and Walter Weyl sought to remedy the relatively weak national institutions with a strong federal government. He actively promoted a strong army and navy and attacked pacifists who thought democracy at home and peace abroad was best served by keeping America weak.

'''Herbert David Croly''', (1869-1930) a leader of the [[Progressive Movement]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Sidney |url=http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/03/herbert-croly-progressive-apostle |title=Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism |work=[[Heritage Foundation]] |date=March 14, 2013 }}</ref> as an editor, and political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine [[The New Republic]]. His book, ''The Promise of American Life'' (1909) looked to the conservative spirit of effective government as espoused by [[Alexander Hamilton]], combined with  the democracy of [[Thomas Jefferson]]. The book was one of the most influential books in American political history, shaping the ideas of many Progressives such as [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. It also influenced the later [[New Deal]]. Calling themselves "the new nationalists" Croly and Walter Weyl sought to remedy the relatively weak national institutions with a strong federal government. He actively promoted a strong army and navy and attacked pacifists who thought democracy at home and peace abroad was best served by keeping America weak.

In his 1914 book ''Progressive Democracy,'' Croly contested the thesis that the liberal tradition in the United States was inhospitable to anticapitalist alternatives. He drew from the American past a history of resistance to capitalist wage relations that was fundamentally liberal, and he reclaimed an idea that Progressives had allowed to lapse - that working for wages was a lesser form of liberty. Increasingly skeptical of the capacity of social welfare legislation to remedy social ills, Croly argued that America's liberal promise could be redeemed only by syndicalist reforms involving workplace democracy. O'Leary (1994) shows his liberal goals were subordinate to his commitment to [[republicanism]].

In his 1914 book ''Progressive Democracy,'' Croly contested the thesis that the liberal tradition in the United States was inhospitable to anticapitalist alternatives. He drew from the American past a history of resistance to capitalist wage relations that was fundamentally liberal, and he reclaimed an idea that Progressives had allowed to lapse - that working for wages was a lesser form of liberty. Increasingly skeptical of the capacity of social welfare legislation to remedy social ills, Croly argued that America's liberal promise could be redeemed only by syndicalist reforms involving workplace democracy. O'Leary (1994) shows his liberal goals were subordinate to his commitment to [[republicanism]].