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Statesmanship and Progressive Reform: An Assessment of Herbert Croly's Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover, New)
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Statesmanship and Progressive Reform: An Assessment of Herbert Croly's Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover, New)
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Statesmanship and Progressive Reform provides a critical assessment
of Herbert Croly's influential account of Abraham Lincoln in his
book, The Promise of American Life (1909). As founder and editor of
The New Republic, Croly was one of the premier intellectual
architects of the American Progressive movement. A defining element
of Croly's book was his claim that Progressivism was a continuation
of the spirit of Lincoln's political thought. This identification
of Progressive politics with the Lincoln legacy became a major
component of Progressive and modern liberal political rhetoric,
especially among presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow
Wilson, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and most recently, Barack Obama.
Croly's account of Lincoln is crucial to his ideology of reform,
yet Jividen and Alvis provide a brand-new argument that this praise
and analysis of Lincoln is highly problematic. Statesmanship and
Progressive Reform shows how Croly's depiction of Lincoln looks
almost exclusively at his character or "spirit," rather than his
speeches, writings, or deeds - all of which would not have aligned
so easily to the principals of Progressivism. Despite his adulation
of Lincoln, Croly rejects the first principles of American
democracy as Lincoln understood them and arrives at a notion of
American statesmanship that sharply departs from that of his
seemingly ideal statesman.
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