vitality of that dream is by herbert crowley's book, the promise of american life, written in 1909, ato could be read with enthusiasm and in a tea party, but it is the rest of the boat that we propose to discuss in dispute today. for his remaining chapters, he argues that for individuals to realize the promise of american life, the central government in washington must play a much larger role. his book launched the progressive movement, featuring first president wilson and now president obama. his is a strategy of made in washington policies, grand schemes to solve national problems, based upon the assumption that these are things that individual americans simply can't do for ourselves. in 1995, as ken said, at the hudson institute's request, checker fan and i edited a book which we call the new promise of american life. checker and i both men men were fellows at hudson in the list are in the country hoping to persuade americans that i was the logical choice for president of the united. the public didn't agree with my logic, prompting my preacher brother-in-law to suggest that i shoul

began to explore the underpendings of what was called government's arrogant empire leading us to herbert crowley and the progressive movement of the early 21st ench ri. crowly is the pro point of central policy, but he also argued for its professionalization for the turning over of public policy to the cree credential experts as well, and the reason for that is in the complex and inter connected circumstances of the 21st century, the promises of american life could no longer be filled by the amateur working of the american. it demanded our national life be turned over to knowledgeable experts in the sciences of society that enabled us to manage the growing webs of interdependence, those social engineers would be devoted heart and soul to a grand vision of national purpose or national community, a vision that was all too likely to elude ordinary citizens trapped as they were in shabby local communities still clinging to parochial moral and religious myths. by the early 90s, we had seen the result of the crowley vision. once proud self-reliant citizens were turned into passive, helpless clients de