| Description |
245 pages ; 22 cm. |
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The American image series
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| 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization.
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National characteristics, American.
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