Everything about Herbert Croly totally explained
Herbert David Croly (
January 23,
1869 -
May 17,
1930) was a
liberal political
author. He was born in
New York City to
Jane Cunningham Croly and
David Goodman Croly. His mother wrote for the
New York World and edited
Demorest's Monthly. His father was a reporter for the
New York Herald and the
New York World.
History
Croly began his studies at the
City College of New York in 1884. In 1886 he enrolled at
Harvard University, but left in June 1888 without receiving a degree. He became editor of the
Architectural Record from 1900 to 1913. In 1914, at the request of the co-founders of the New Republic, Willard and Dorothy Straight, he become the first editor, with
Walter Lippmann as his young assistant. He remained as editor from the founding until his death in [1930].
In 1892 he married Louise Emory of Baltimore, Maryland.
Works
In 1909 his book,
The Promise of American Life, was published. This book is said to "offer a manifesto of
Progressive beliefs" which "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate capitalism and from limited government to the welfare state".
The book, which discusses historical evolution of American society, includes analysis of slavery and slave-holders, corporations and unions, centralization and democracy, and individual as well as national purpose.
It is new conditions between the conception of their national Promise as a process and an ideal.
Political Influence
Croly's work influenced
Theodore Roosevelt (who borrowed the "new nationalism" slogan),
Woodrow Wilson, and the architects of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's
New Deal. In
1985 historian David Levy published the first
biography of Croly,
Herbert Croly and the New Republic.
Quote
- "The popular will can't be taken for granted, it must be created."
- "Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly can't mean anything less."
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