In the canon
The Promise of American Life
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1909
- Pages
- Pages 468
The country had been running on a comfortable faith: that its promise kept itself, that free land and open markets would hand prosperity and equality to whoever turned up, with nobody having to intend it. Herbert Croly is the man who takes that faith away.
The faith of Americans in their own country is religious, if not in its intensity, at any rate in its almost absolute and universal authority.
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