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The Promise of American Life
by Croly, Herbert
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Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Thus. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to edges of bright dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy.
"THE NEW NATIONALISM" First edition thus of Herbert Croly's pivotal work on the American experiment, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. First printed in 1909, Croly's history of the dual Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian traditions set the stage for Theodore's Roosevelt's New Nationalism, the Progressive agenda of the New Republic magazine and, eventually, FDR's New Deal. This edition was part of The John Harvard Library of American classics, edited by Bernard Bailyn.
"THE NEW NATIONALISM" First edition thus of Herbert Croly's pivotal work on the American experiment, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. First printed in 1909, Croly's history of the dual Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian traditions set the stage for Theodore's Roosevelt's New Nationalism, the Progressive agenda of the New Republic magazine and, eventually, FDR's New Deal. This edition was part of The John Harvard Library of American classics, edited by Bernard Bailyn.
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- Title
- The Promise of American Life
- Author
- Croly, Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass
- Date Published
- 1965
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- 0.00 lbs
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