Herbert Croly
Herbert David Croly (born January 23, 1869 in New York City , † May 17, 1930 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American journalist and author.
Herbert Croly was born in New York City in 1869. His parents were both journalists. In 1892 he married Louise Emory.
In 1884 he began his studies at the City College of New York and studied from 1886 for two years at Harvard University without achieving an academic degree.
From 1900 he was the editor of an architecture magazine (Architectural Record) and from 1914 he was the first editor of the political magazine The New Republic , which "became the opinion-forming paper of the political and literary elite of America."
His best known work was The Promise of American Life which describes the path to a welfare state . This work had a strong influence on the American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt , Woodrow Wilson and the advisors to Franklin D. Roosevelt who initiated the New Deal .
In 1912 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
literature
- David W. Levy: Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive. Princeton University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-691-04725-1
Web links
- The Promise of American Life at Project Gutenberg
- The Promise of American Lives: Heroic Individualism in the Writings of Herbert Croly
- short biography
Footnotes
- ↑ The American Promise. By Wolf Lepenies, January 17, 2009, Die Welt
- ↑ The American Promise. By Wolf Lepenies, January 17, 2009, Die Welt
- ^ Members: Herbert Croly. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 24, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Croly, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Croly, Herbert David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1930 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara , California |