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The redemptive self : stories Americans live by /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McAdams, Dan P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Edition:Revised and Expanded Edition.
Subjects:
Self-perception > United States.
Redemption > Psychology > Miscellanea.
Success > United States > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue how to be good in America
  • Redemption and the American soul
  • The generative adult
  • Life stories
  • How the story begins : the chosen people
  • My good inner self : from Emerson to Oprah
  • God bless America
  • Black (and white)
  • Contaminated plots, vicious circles
  • When redemption fails
  • Obama versus Bush : competing stories of redemption
  • Culture, narrative, and the self
  • Epilogue final thoughts and confessions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.