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Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl
1873–1919
A sharp Progressive-era writer and public thinker, he explored economics, labor, democracy, and the role of the modern state in American life. His work helped shape reform-minded debate in the early twentieth century, especially through books like The New Democracy and his work with The New Republic.
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American World Policies
by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl
About the author
Born in Philadelphia on March 11, 1873, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and later pursued further study in Europe. He went on to become a writer, speaker, and public intellectual whose work ranged across economics, labor, public policy, and international affairs.
He is best remembered as an intellectual leader of the American Progressive movement. Contemporary reference sources and later historical summaries describe him as a strong nationalist who believed the United States needed stronger national institutions, and he wrote extensively about democratic reform and the changing social order.
His best-known book is The New Democracy (1912), and he also served as a coeditor of The New Republic. He died on November 9, 1919, in Woodstock, New York, leaving behind a body of work closely tied to the reform debates of his era.