The Spirit of America Part 16

HERBERT CROLY'S

The Promise of American Life

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PRESIDENT J. G. SCHURMAN OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY writes of this book: "I regard Mr. Croly's book as a serious and weighty contribution to contemporary American politics. A treatise on the fundamental political ideas of the American people which attempts to develop their full content and to re-read American history in the light of these developed ideas cannot, of course, be made light literature; but the author brings to the weighty subject with which he deals a lucid and vivacious style and a logical sense of arrangement. And thoughtful readers who are interested in fundamental political principles, once they have started the book, are pretty certain to finish it.... For my own part I have found the book exceedingly stimulating. It is also instructive, for the author seems to be thoroughly versed in the modern political and economic history not only of America but of Europe as well. Finally, the volume has the immense attraction of dealing with a subject which of all political subjects is now most prominent in the mind not only of thoughtful citizens, but, one might almost say, of the American people."

"'The Promise of American Life' will beyond doubt be recognized by students of the great philosophical currents of American history and political development as an unusual and remarkable work.... Mr.

Croly acutely a.n.a.lyzes American democracy and pseudo-democracy, while his treatment of the actual present tendencies of democratic ideals is even more instructive and suggestive than the purely historical part of his book. He writes with a free pen and is both apt and keen-witted in his way of ill.u.s.trating theories and beliefs by practical applications. One chapter, for instance, which will attract very special attention is that which considers the aims and methods of four typical reformers, Jerome, Hearst, Bryan, and Roosevelt."--_The Outlook._

BY ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE, PH.D.

Professor of History in Harvard University

The United States as a World Power

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This book is based on the lectures delivered by the author at the Sorbonne in Paris in the winter of 1906-1907. Among the questions considered as affecting the relations of the United States with other countries are immigration and race questions, the Monroe Doctrine and our relations with Latin America, the Spanish War and the acquisition of colonies, our relations with the chief continental powers, with England and with Canada, the Isthmian Ca.n.a.l, the United States in the Pacific and our relations with China and with j.a.pan.

"We know of no volume which sums up so well and in so brief a s.p.a.ce the wide interests which have attracted public attention during the last decade and which, incidentally, are certain in view of our development to loom still larger on the national horizon. Many Americans will doubtless welcome the opportunity of not only reducing to order and simplicity in their minds the vast ma.s.s of information relating to the movements and interests of the United States as a world power, which they have acquired from desultory reading, but also of refres.h.i.+ng their memory as to the historical development of which these movements form, for the present, the climax."--_The Chicago Inter-Ocean._

"The book is justly ent.i.tled to recognition as a work of real distinction. It has substance as well as symmetry and force; it is void of dogmatism or special pleading, but it moves the reader to thought; it handles serious and complicated questions with a light touch, but the impression of its solid qualities is the impression that remains."--_New York Post._

"A comprehensive and impartial statement of the nature and extent of our national responsibilities.... The book is not a dry political treatise as the t.i.tle might suggest, but is as absorbingly interesting as the best histories. On account of this, as well as of its unblinking comprehensiveness, it deservedly ranks as a great book."--_Philadelphia Telegraph._