"I do not know when I have read a book which I felt profited me as much."--Theodore Roosevelt

"Seminal for American political thinking."--Felix Frankfurter

"[A] political classic which announced the end of the Age of Innocence with its romantic faith in American destiny and inaugurated the process of self-examination."--Walter Lippmann

"As comprehensive and progressive a statement of American political ideas and ideals as I have found."--Learned Hand

Herbert Croly
With a new foreword by Franklin Foer