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The Promise of American Life (view source)
Revision as of 02:31, January 16, 2016
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After reading ''The Promise of American Life'', former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] wrote the following:
After reading ''The Promise of American Life'', former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] wrote the following:
<blockquote>In Mr. Herbert Croly's 'Promise of American Life," the most profound and illuminating study of our National conditions which has appeared for many years, especial emphasis is laid on the assertion that the whole point of our governmental experiment lies in the fact that it is a genuine effort to achieve true democracy - both political and industrial.<ref>{{cite web|last=Roosevelt|first=Theodore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hs7UAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA96|title=Nationalism and Popular Rule|work=The Outlook|date=January 21, 1911|pages=96–101}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>In Mr. Herbert Croly's 'Promise of American Life," the most profound and illuminating study of our National conditions which has appeared for many years, especial emphasis is laid on the assertion that the whole point of our governmental experiment lies in the fact that it is a genuine effort to achieve true democracy - both political and industrial.<ref>{{cite web|last=Roosevelt|first=Theodore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hs7UAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA96|title=Nationalism and Popular Rule|work=The Outlook|date=January 21, 1911|pages=96–101}}</ref></blockquote>
According to the [[University of Houston]]: "If any one book can be said to offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs, it was Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life."
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