The American society.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
G. Braziller,
1963.
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| Series: | The American image series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A city on the hill: William Bradford -arrival in America
- Benjamin Franklin -a bold and arduous project
- Jonathan Edwards -personal narrative
- Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur -the American
- Thomas Jefferson -on Christianity, on the true aristocracy
- 2. The course of empire: Constance Rourke -the gamecock of the West
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -self-reliance
- James Fenimore Cooper -the advantages and disadvantages of democracy
- Alexis de Tocqueville -democracy in America
- Herman Melville -Nantucket, Ethan Allen
- 3. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking: George Fitzhugh -The universal trade
- Harriet Beecher Stowe -Dark places
- Walt Whitman -Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- John W. DeForest -Experience under fire
- Abraham Lincoln -With malice toward none; with charity for all
- Cowboy songs
- Emily Dickinson -Three poems
- Mark Twain -The boy's ambition, The cayote
- 4. New Beginnings: Andrew Carnegie -How I served my apprenticeship
- Hamlin Garland -Under the lion's paw
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr. -The soldier's faith
- Henry Adams -American ideals
- William James -What pragmatism means
- Jane Addams -Public activities and investigations
- 5. Faith and doubt: Robert Frost -The gift outright
- T.S. Eliot -The Boston evening transcript
- John Dos Passos -The body of an American
- H.L. Mencken -On being an American
- F. Scott Fitzgerald -Young man in New York
- Theodore Dreiser -Clyde Griffiths' mother
- Sinclair Lewis -Gopher Prairie, Minnesota
- Nathanael West -The last Garden of Eden
- 6. Varieties of present experience: David Riesman -"The talk of the town": the socialization of consumption preferences
- William H. Whyte, Jr. -Human relations
- James Baldwin -Autobiographical notes.