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Croly argued that Americans had treated the promise of a better life as a destiny that would fulfill itself, and that it could now be kept only through deliberate national effort. \"The national Promise has been transformed into a closer equivalent of a national purpose,\" he wrote, \"the fulfillment of which is a matter of conscious work.\"\n\nThe book read American history through the quarrel between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton, in Croly's account, grasped the need for an energetic national government but built it on a \"fatal distrust of democracy\"; Jefferson's heirs trusted democracy but distrusted the means by which its purposes could be achieved. Croly called for \"the transformation of Hamiltonianism into a thoroughly democratic political principle,\" a program he named a \"new Nationalism.\" He wanted a democracy \"devoted to the welfare of the whole people by means of a conscious labor of individual and social improvement,\" served by Hamiltonian national organization.\n\nOn the economy Croly favored regulating the great corporations over breaking them up. He called the Sherman Anti-Trust Law \"a fatal bar\" to treating corporate growth as a matter of national policy and urged its repeal or revision in favor of \"the Roosevelt-Taft policy of recognition tempered by regulation,\" with a federal commission deciding which combinations to permit. Roosevelt said of the book, \"I do not know when I have read a book which I felt profited me as much,\" and in 1910, at Osawatomie, Kansas, he made the case for a New Nationalism of his own.\n\nIn 1914 the heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, the banker and diplomat Willard Straight, asked Croly to launch a liberal journal with them. With Walter Lippmann among his recruits, he brought out the first issue of The New Republic on November 7, 1914. It sold 875 copies; within a year circulation reached 15,000. The magazine backed Roosevelt and the Progressive Party, moved from support for neutrality to support for Wilson's decision to enter the war in April 1917, and after the Paris Peace Conference Croly called the settlement a \"peace of annihilation.\" Lippmann called him twentieth-century America's \"first important political philosopher.\" Croly was replaced as editor in 1930, the year he died.",1869,1930,"American","writer","Progressive Era","\u002Fimages\u002Ffigures\u002Fwebp\u002Fherbert-croly.webp",null,[115],{"archetype_slug":41,"strength":116,"description":117},7,"A better life for most Americans will not arrive by itself; it takes a national government working on purpose for the whole people. Croly's Promise of American Life urged putting Hamilton's strong-state methods to democratic ends, and it helped inspire Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism.",[],[],[],[],[],[],{"cards":125,"influenced":126,"shapedBy":127,"outbound":128},[],[],[],0]