The American society.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lynn, Kenneth Schuyler (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G. Braziller, 1963.
Series:The American image series
Subjects:
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.