David Croly
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David Goodman Croly was the father of the progressive writer Herbert Croly, co-founder of The New Republic magazine.
David Croly was a devoted Comtist, who attempted to popularize the concepts of Positivism[1]. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, which turned out to be a hoax[2].
Works
- Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro, 1863
- Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction, 1868
- A positivist primer: being a series of familiar conversations on the religion of humanity, 1876
- Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things, 1888
See Also
References
- ↑ (2014) Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 22-24. ISBN 978-0691612690.
- ↑ "The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln", CNN, February 18, 2014.