The character of Americans. A book of readings

Foreword to the first edition ......Page 8
I. INTRODUCTION ......Page 18
Introduction I ......Page 19
The Dispraising of America, John A. Kouwenhoven ......Page 21
The Idea of American Civilization, Max Lerner ......Page 27
The Quest for the National Character, David M. Potter ......Page 38
II. AS OTHERS HAVE SEEN US ......Page 54
Introduction II ......Page 55
What Is an American? J. Hector St. John de Crévecour ......Page 58
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville ......Page 64
The American Character in the 1880s, James Bryce ......Page 88
III. PERSPECTIVES. PAST AND PRESENT ......Page 100
Introduction III ......Page 101
The Shaping of National Character, Henry Adams ......Page 106
The Frontier Experience, Frederick Jackson Turner ......Page 113
What Then Is the American, This New Man? Arthur M. Schlesinger ......Page 119
The M-Factor in American History, George W. Pierson ......Page 135
We Are All Third Generation, Margaret Mead ......Page 148
IV. AS THE TWIG IS BENT ......Page 160
Introduction IV ......Page 161
Americans and Chinese: The Beginnings of Contrast, Francis L. K. Hsu ......Page 174
The American Child as Seen by British Travelers, 1845—1935, Richard L. Rapson ......Page 187
Baby and Child Care, Benjamin Spock ......Page 200
V. AMERICAN VALUES ......Page 208
Introduction V ......Page 209
Conflict and Change in American Values, Ethel M. Albert ......Page 213
Changing Value Orientations and Beliefs on the American Scene, Robin M. Williams, Jr ......Page 229
American Core Value and National Character, Francis L. K. Hsu ......Page 248
From Morality to Morale, David Riesman ......Page 267
The Saving Remnant, David Riesman ......Page 272
A Changing American Character? Seymour Martin Lipset ......Page 286
New Light on Changing American Values, Fred I. Greenstein ......Page 311
The American Character in the 1950s, Thomas L. Hartshorne ......Page 324
VI. THE ONGOING INQUIRY ......Page 332
Introduction VI ......Page 333
American Women and the American Character, David M. Potter ......Page 335
The Search for Southern Identity, C. Vann Woodward ......Page 352
Black Rage, William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs ......Page 364
The Forgotten American, Peter Schrag ......Page 382
What Generation Gap? Joseph Adelson ......Page 395
Is America by Nature a Violent Society? Hanna Arendt, St. Clair Drake, Clifibrd Geertz, Paul Goodman, Michael Harrington, Richard Hofstadter, Thomas F. Pettigrew, David Riesman, and C. Vann Woodward ......Page 406
American Character and Foreign Policy, Gabriel A. Almond ......Page 422
Readings on American National Character ......Page 433