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Book SynopsisPresents a classic that had a spectacular immediate impact on national politics. This book tells a history of America and its political ideals and an analysis of contemporary ills, from rampant economic inequality to unchecked corporate power.
Trade Review"I do not know when I have read a book which I felt profited me as much."
—Theodore Roosevelt"Seminal for American political thinking."
—Felix Frankfurter"[A] political classic which announced the end of the Age of Innocence with its romantic faith in American destiny and inaugurated the process of self-examination."
—Walter Lippmann"As comprehensive and progressive a statement of American political ideas and ideals as I have found."
—Learned HandTable of ContentsPreface ix Foreword xv 1. What Is the Promise of American Life? 1 2. The Federalists and the Republicans 33 3. The Democrats and the Whigs 64 4. Slavery and American Nationality 89 5. The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems 123 6. Reform and the Reformers 173 7. Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes 216 8. Nationality and Democracy: National Origins 264 9. The American Democracy and Its National Principles 326 10. A National Foreign Policy 355 11. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1 386 12. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2 431 13. Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes 490 Index 559
