“‘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 analyzes 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 illustrating 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.
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By ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE, Ph.D.
Professor of History in Harvard University
The United States as a World Power
Cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net
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 Canal, the United States in the Pacific and our relations with China and with Japan.
“We know of no volume which sums up so well and in so brief a space 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 mass 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 refreshing 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 entitled 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 title 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.