The contrapuntal civilization
Subtitle: essays toward a new understanding of the American experience
By: edited by Michael Kammen.
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; United States -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Biformity: A frame of reference, by M. Kammen.; value: A calculus for polarity, by L. W. Norris.; value: Reflections on the American identity, by E. H. Erikson.; value: Paradox and dream, by J. Steinbeck.; value: The land of contrasts, by J. F. Muirhead.; value: The souls of Black folk, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.; value: The American cast of mind, by R. B. Perry.; value: The paradox of success and failure, by W. A. Clebsch.; value: Paleface and redskin, by P. Rahv.; value: A culture of contradictions, by R. Chase.; value: Fenimore Cooper and the economic age, by M. Bewley.; value: The myth and the dialogue, by R. W. B. Lewis.; value: Venturous conservative: on Tocqueville's image of the Democrat, by M. Meyers.; value: The Federalist, a split personality, by A. T. Mason.; value: Soldiers and politicians in the American Civil War, by M. Cunliffe.; value: The American ideology, by R. G. McCloskey.; value: American character and foreign policy, by G. A. Almond.; value: The ironic element in the American situation, by R. Niebuhr.; value: The nation's dilemmas: a critique, by S. Hoffman.