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Croly ’ s largest contribution to American political thought was to synthesize the two thinkers into one theory on government: Jefferson ’ s strong democracy achieved through Hamilton ’ s strong national government.
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They remained happily married until Herbert Croly ’ s death in 1930.
In 1910, after the publication of Herbert Croly ’ s book The Promise of American Life, he was awarded an honorary degree by Harvard University.
Little is known about Croly ’ s immediate actions after he left Harvard in 1899.
Despite his preference for Hamilton, Croly believed there were some good aspects about Jefferson ’ s philosophy on government.
Croly argued that when America shifted from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, Jefferson ’ s vision was no longer realistic for America.
Instead, Croly turned to Alexander Hamilton ’ s theory of big national government.
Croly ’ s plan included a federal inheritance rate of 20 %, not the individual income tax that other progressive reformers wanted.
Croly ’ s strong central government needed strong individuals to lead it.
Croly ’ s notion of the elite was challenged by civil libertarians who believed Croly ’ s powerful few would lead to a totalitarian state.
Others worried that Croly ’ s plan would make America socialist — a criticism Croly foresaw in his book and attempted to combat by labeling his government as nationalistic rather than socialistic.
Even those who believed Croly ’ s government could be democratic had concerns that Croly ’ s vision for the country was clouded by a Republican prejudice.
Croly ’ s book was also criticized for its lack of national focus.
Connected to that was an argument that Croly ’ s plans were unrealistic and detached from the reality that many Americans were living.
By Croly ’ s death in 1930, only 7, 500 copies of The Promise of American Life had been sold.
The publication of The Promise of American Life in 1909 earned Croly a lot of publicity and the attention of some important people, including Dan Hanna, Mark Hanna ’ s son.
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* Croly, Herbert, The Promise of American Life ( 2005 reprint )
* Croly, Herbert, The Promise of American Life ( 2005 reprint )
When The Promise of American Life was published in 1909, Croly became a leading political thinker and prominent figure in the progressive movement.
In The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly set out his argument for a progressive-liberal government in twentieth-century America.
He wrote, “ Jefferson was filled with a sincere, indiscriminate, and unlimited faith in the American people .” However, Croly viewed Jeffersonian democracy as “ tantamount to extreme individualism ,” suitable only for pre-Civil War America when the ideal Americans were pioneers pursuing individual wealth.
Thus, although many American reform movements have their roots in the rhetoric of Croly's progressivism, to be effective they have had to accommodate the principles of liberal individualism that Croly wished to eradicate.
In Progressive Democracy, published in 1915, Croly picked up where The Promise of American Life left off, shifting his focus to economic democracy and the issue of power for workers in large corporations.
A main concern of Croly ’ s in Progressive Democracy was that the United States Constitution was fundamentally inconsistent with American democratic aspirations.
In Progressive Democracy, Croly expressed hope that reformers in 1915 were different enough from reformers of the past that they could make real differences in American politics.
Though Croly eventually joined calls for American involvement in World War I, he became pessimistic and frustrated by the costs of war.
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The book The Promise of American Life, written in 1909 by Herbert Croly, influenced Theodore Roosevelt.
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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.
From 1905 to 1909, Herbert Croly worked on a new project: a political book he hoped would provide guidance for Americans during the transition from an agrarian to an industrialized society.
Croly wanted to transcend the doctrine of individual rights in order to create a national political community, one that would be forged by a strong but democratic national government.
He wrote that his goal was to explain “ the needs and requirements of a genuinely popular system of representative government .” For Croly, those needs and requirements included information on major political issues available to the public, energetic public debate and discussion, and the pursuit of a common voice in society.
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The hoax pamphlet was written by David Goodman Croly, managing editor of the New York World, a Democratic Party paper, and George Wakeman, a World reporter.
Charles Eliot was a fearless crusader not only for educational reform, but for many of the goals of the progressive movement -- whose most prominent figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt ( Class of 1880 ) and most eloquent spokesman was Herbert Croly ( Class of 1889 ).
Hanna, according to his biographer Croly, was in charge of the arrangements for the campaign visit of former President Grant and New York Senator Roscoe Conkling to the state.
The New Republic was founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, Willard Straight, who maintained majority ownership.
Alvin Johnson hired Anderson to move to New York and write about politics for The New Republic in 1918, but he was fired for winning an argument with Editor-in-Chief Herbert David Croly.
He was involved in the early years of The New Republic when it was founded by Herbert Croly.
It was also the home in the early part of twentieth century of Surgeon Croly, who founded Baggot St. Hospital.
George Croly ( August 17, 1780 – November 24, 1860 ) was a poet, novelist, historian, and divine.
Croly was the leading contributor to the Literary Gazette and Blackwood's Magazine, published from 1817 – 25.
Croly was also associated with the Tory magazine Britannia.
Former Shamrock Rovers, Drogheda United and St Patrick's Athletic player Trevor Croly joined the coaching staff of Kildare County however his stay was short.
In his 1914 book Progressive Democracy, Croly contested the thesis that the liberal tradition in the United States was inhospitable to anticapitalist alternatives.
Herbert Croly was born in New York City in 1869 to journalists Jane Cunningham Croly — better known by her pseudonym “ Jenny June ”— and David Goodman Croly.
Jane Croly was a contributor to The New York Times, The Messenger, and The New York World.
She was one of the best-known women in America when Herbert Croly was born.
David Croly soon became concerned that his son was being exposed to improper philosophical material at Harvard.
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