Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930),
one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century.
David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's penetrating
analysis of American life and tells the story of a career that included
his founding of one of the most influential journals of the period, The
New Republic, in 1914 and his writing of The Promise of American Life
(1909), a landmark in the history of American ideas.
Originally published in 1984.
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