<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/12361.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Promise of American Life</u><br><span>The book is said to "offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs" that "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate capitalism and from limited government to the welfare state." By Croly’s death in 1930, only 7,500 copies of The Promise of American Life had been sold. Despite this, the book was immensely influential, even influencing Theodore Roosevelt to adopt the platform of The New Nationalism.</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />
