The Promise of American Life
Aggressive voices promote minority special interests. Wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The middle class is under siege. Giant corporations and big business threaten democracy itself.Such was the state of the United States after the Civil War, and if it sounds familiar, then it only underlines the continuing relevance of Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life, first published in 1909. Croly saw an American culture desperately fragmented, torn by the transformation from a rural, agrarian economy to an urban, industrial one, and called for a righting of societal and economic imbalances through collective national efforts an…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59605-272-7
- EAN: 9781596052727
- Produktnummer: 1852664
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 476 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.7 cm 537 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 537
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