The Promise of American Life
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One of the most important books to emerge from the Progressive era, The Promise of American Life offered a blueprint for a modern activist government that had enormous impact on intellectuals coming of age before World War I.
Chapters (72)(click to expand)
- THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE
- New York
- THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
- CONTENTS
- THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE
- CHAPTER I
- I WHAT IS THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE?
- II HOW THE PROMISE HAS BEEN REALIZED
- III HOW THE PROMISE IS TO BE REALIZED
- CHAPTER II
- I THE FEDERALISTS AND THE REPUBLICANS
- II FEDERALISM AND REPUBLICANISM AS OPPONENTS
- III FEDERALISM AND REPUBLICANISM AS ALLIES
- CHAPTER III
- I THE DEMOCRATS AND THE WHIGS
- II THE NEW NATIONAL DEMOCRACY
- III THE WHIG FAILURE
- CHAPTER IV
- I SLAVERY AND AMERICAN NATIONALITY
- II SLAVERY AS A DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION
- III LINCOLN AS MORE THAN AN AMERICAN
- CHAPTER V
- I THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION AND ITS PROBLEMS
- II THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS SPECIALIST
- III THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL SPECIALIST
- IV THE LABOR UNION AND THE DEMOCRATIC TRADITION
- V GOVERNMENT BY LAWYERS
- VI AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
- CHAPTER VI
- I REFORM AND THE REFORMERS
- II THE LOGIC OF REFORM
- III WILLIAM J. BRYAN AS A REFORMER
- IV WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME AS A REFORMER
- V WILLIAM R. HEARST AS A REFORMER
- VI THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A REFORMER
- VII THE REFORMATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- CHAPTER VII
- I RECONSTRUCTION; ITS CONDITIONS AND PURPOSES
- II DEMOCRACY AND DISCRIMINATION
- III CONSTRUCTIVE DISCRIMINATION
- IV THE BRIDGE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND NATIONALITY
- CHAPTER VIII
- I NATIONALITY AND DEMOCRACY; NATIONAL ORIGINS
- II THE IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- III NATIONALITY AND DEMOCRACY IN ENGLAND
- IV DEMOCRACY AND NATIONALITY IN FRANCE
- V THE RELATION OF GERMAN NATIONALITY TO DEMOCRACY
- VI MILITARISM AND NATIONALITY
- CHAPTER IX
- I THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND ITS NATIONAL PRINCIPLE
- II NATIONALITY AND CENTRALIZATION
- III THE PEOPLE AND THE NATION
- CHAPTER X
- I A NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY
- II A STABLE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
- III DEMOCRACY AND PEACE
- CHAPTER XI PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION
- I STATE INSTITUTIONAL REFORM
- II STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
- III POSSIBILITIES OF EFFECTIVE STATE ACTION
- CHAPTER XII PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION—(continued)
- II THE RECOGNITION OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
- III THE FRUITS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
- IV TAXATION AND INEQUALITIES IN WEALTH
- V THE ORGANIZATION OF LABOR
- CHAPTER XIII CONCLUSIONS—THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATIONAL PURPOSES
- I INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE EDUCATION
- II CONDITIONS OF INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION
- III ATTEMPTS AT INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION
- IV MEANS OF INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION
- V CONSTRUCTIVE INDIVIDUALISM
- INDEX
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