...David W. Noble The Crossroads Of Liberalism: Croly, Weyl, Lippmann, and the Progressive Era, 1900-1925 . By Forcey Charles . New York : Oxford University Press , 1961 . Pp. 358 . $7.00 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 274 The South Atlantic Quarterly which...

...William Chapman Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 William Chapman Herbert Croly s The Promise of American Life In 1910 Theodore Roosevelt, an ex-president at fifty-one, returned to Oyster Bay after an especially thrilling trip abroad. Energetic as always, he had romped through...

... change at home and the foreign policy which such forces will create. Despite his failure, Herbert Croly emerges as a man of strength and imagination, carrying along a kindly Walter Weyl and a mercurial, overly-brilliant, and somehow slippery Walter Lippmann. His recog­ nitions and beliefs emerge from...

... to public life in America, as set forth by Lippmann and Herbert Croly, among others, was as follows: the United States, pushed from behind by an irresist­ ible economic development, was entering the most complex and rapidly changing century in its history. America needed guidance from those skilled...

... of this academic reaction, McKim, Mead and White had toured Europe 52. Starrett, Changing the Skyline, p. 50. 53. C.H. Reilly, McKim, Mead and White (London, 1924), p. 24. 54. Herbert Croly and H.W. Desmond, The Work of McKim, Mead and White, Architectural Record, 20 (Sept. 1906), 177, 241. 55. Montgomery...

... s influence lies in Sir Edward Grey s comment: I felt safe with him. DUKE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM E. SCOTT The Crossroads Of Liberalism: Croly, Weyl, Lippmann, and the Progressive Era, 1900-1925. By Charles Forcey. New York: Ox­ ford University Press, 1961. Pp. 358. $7.00. Professor Forcey attempts...

... ; Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (New York, 1956), esp. pp. 165-171, 272-74; Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life (New York, 1909), pp. 174 75; Charles Forcey, The Crossroads ofLiberalism. Croly, Lippman, Weyl and the New Republic, 1900-1925 (New York, 1961). 10...

... humanitarian outlook and its interest in moral issues, the Progressive movement aimed at the equalizing of opportunity by an approach that was essentially nega­ tive. As Herbert Croly wrote in The Progressive ^Democracy 476 The South Atlantic Quarterly (1914): . . . the expectation...

... a correct estimate of the char­ acter and public services of most of the above mentioned pub­ lic men. For instance, a free use of the indexes of these works will furnish some illuminating material supplementary to Croly s Life of Marcus A. Hanna. Especially is this true of the matter of Hanna s succession...

... complacency about ends which, in their theoretical writing, Dewey and James proposed to combat. The New Re-public was founded by Herbert Croly whose al­ legiance to the pragmatic creed is made clear in its Twenty-fifth An­ niversary Number in 1914. It is entirely appropriate to turn to this distinguished...

... on Cultural Relations with Latin America which included Herring, Herbert Croly, John Dewey, and Stuart Chase among others, brought together Americans from various professions to share an intellectual interchange with Mexican scholars and experts.22 Di­ verse approaches were offered in topics treating history...

... (1943); Smith and Beasley, Carter Glass (1939); and Lief, Democracy s Norris (1939). Prior to the period considered by Link, a few additional congressmen had received biographical treatment. But Acheson, Joe Bailey, the Last of the Democrats (1932); Herbert Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1912), N. W...