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In his influential 1909 book, The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly (1869-1930) ar- gued that in urban, industrialized, 20th-cen- tury America, a strong national government was needed to counter the nation's emerging large corporations and to improve the welfare of the average citizen. Hamiltonian govern- ment, he urged, should be used for Jeffersonian ends. His argument provided...