Early Career
Little is known about Croly’s immediate actions after he left Harvard in 1899. Historians believe he went to Paris intending to study philosophy, but by 1900 he had returned to New York City. After returning to America, Herbert Croly worked as an editor for an architectural magazine, The Architectural Record, from 1900 to 1906. During that period he spent a great deal of time playing tennis and poker, reading, attending the theater, and vacationing at his summer home in Cornish, New Hampshire. From 1905 to 1909, Herbert Croly worked on a new project: a political book he hoped would provide guidance for Americans during the transition from an agrarian to an industrialized society. When The Promise of American Life was published in 1909, Croly became a leading political thinker and prominent figure in the progressive movement.
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