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Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgments" (pages 349-351).
Contents
pt. 1. History and culture: History and the concept of culture -- pt. 2. American culture and the American imagination: The meaning of Lindbergh's flight -- Lindbergh, Dos Passos, and history -- History and literature: three novels: Nature and civilization: James Fenimore Cooper ; The meaning of history in Uncle Tom's cabin ; Empiric of the imagination: E.W. Howe and The story of the country town -- James Gould Cozzens: the condition of modern man -- pt. 3. The culture of freedom: Self and society: Benjamin Franklin: the making of an American character ; John F. Kennedy: the meaning of courage -- Some reflections on freedom -- Frederick Grimke: the dynamics of freedom -- Mill, Marx, and modern individualism -- The ideal of individualism and the reality of organization -- The politics of design -- Herbert Croly: the promise of constructive individualism -- pt. 4. The values of American culture: the intellectual and the university: The intellectual: cleric or critic? -- The university: the trouble with higher education.