The Promise of American Life

1. What Is the Promise of American Life?

   16:01

2. How the Promise has been realized

   22:01

3. How the Promise is to be realized

   24:39

4. The Federalists and the Republicans

   27:22

5. Federalism and Republicanism as opponents

   19:01

6. Federalism and Republicanism as allies

   13:23

7. The Democrats and the Whigs

   7:48

8. The New National Democracy

   25:43

9. The Whig failure

   14:32

10. Slavery and American Nationality

    19:34

11. Slavery as a Democratic Institution

    21:12

12. Lincoln as more than an American

    25:14

13. The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems

    14:18

14. The Development of the Business Specialist

    28:05

15. The Development of the Political Specialist

    21:15

16. The Labor Union and the Democratic Tradition

    13:15

17. Government by Lawyers

    15:58

18. American Democracy and the Social Problem

    5:40

19. Reform and the Reformers

    17:22

20. The Logic of Reform

    16:59

21. William J. Bryan as a Reformer

    14:06

22. William Travers Jerome as a Reformer

    9:03

23. William R. Hearst as a Reformer

    9:15

24. Theodore Roosevelt as a Reformer

    12:33

25. The Reformation of Theodore Roosevelt

    9:38

26. Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes

    24:27

27. Democracy and Discrimination

    18:56

28. Constructive Discrimination

    34:37

29. The Bridge between Democracy and Nationality

    18:31

30. Nationality and Democracy: National Origins

    17:41

31. The Implications of National Development

    20:20

32. Nationality and Democracy in England

    22:09

33. Democracy and Nationality in France

    15:37

34. The Relation of German Nationality to Democracy

    20:27

35. Militarism and Nationality

    26:44

36. The American Democracy and Its National Principles

    18:03

37. Nationality and Centralization

    17:34

38. The People and the Nation

    22:21

39. A National Foreign Policy

    27:54

40. A stable American international system

    18:40

41. Democracy and Peace

    15:31

42. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1 - State Institutional Reform

    46:30

43. State Administrative Reform

    25:05

44. Possibilities of effective state action

    16:56

45. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2

    15:02

46. The recognition of Industrial Organization

    29:14

47. The fruits of Industrial Organization

    31:10

48. Taxation and inequalities in wealth

    10:50

49. The organization of Labor

    32:29

50. Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes - Individual vs. Collective Education

    25:26

51. Conditions of individual emancipation

    32:09

52. Attempts at individual emancipation

    15:21

53. Means of individual emancipation

    35:48

54. Constructive individualism

    34:02

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