...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...

... 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...

... an influential role in government under Wilson, it merits only passing notice. Professor Forcey s instructions to the liberals are mostly negative. They must beware of becoming enamoured of personality or leader­ ship and of the usual fatal need of the liberals in power to preserve or restore prosperity...

... in American society through liberal reform as outrageous imposi­ tions upon personal liberty. The state he yearns for is remarkably similar to the Progressive one he denounced in Farewell to Reform. He has not, as Charles Forcey argues, had only the questionable satisfaction of swinging from the absolutes...

... ; 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...

... 29, 1966. 8 See David Noble, The Paradox of Progressive Thought (Minneapolis, 1958); Charles Forcey, The Crossroads of Liberalism (New York, 1961); Sidney Fine, Laissez Faire and the General Welfare State (Ann Arbor, 1956). The Social Values of the Progressives: Some New Perspectives 63...