Lerner, Max
America As A Civilization : Life and thought in the United States today / Print Max Lerner - New York Simon & Schuster 1957 - 1036 p. Hardback book.
1. Heritage --
2. The idea of American civilization --
3. People and place --
4. The culture of science and the machine --
5. Capitalist economy and business civilization --
6. The political system --
7. Class and status in America --
8. Life cycle of the American --
9. Character and society --
10. Belief and opinion --
11. The arts and popular culture --
12. America as a world power.
Twelve years of research result in answers in 1957 to what made America not just a conglomeration of individual wills and appetites, but a civilization. What are America's traditions and antecednets? How do people make a living, govern themselves, handle the problems of power and freedom? How are they divided ethnically and in classes? How do they court, make love, bring up and educate children? How do they work, play, express their creativity? What principles hold their civilization together? What gods do they worship, what beliefs give them strength, what dreams and fears are they moved by? This is a compendium of the answers to these questions in 1957.
26073
57-100979
Civilization--United States
National characteristics, American.
973.92 Ler 15
America As A Civilization : Life and thought in the United States today / Print Max Lerner - New York Simon & Schuster 1957 - 1036 p. Hardback book.
1. Heritage --
2. The idea of American civilization --
3. People and place --
4. The culture of science and the machine --
5. Capitalist economy and business civilization --
6. The political system --
7. Class and status in America --
8. Life cycle of the American --
9. Character and society --
10. Belief and opinion --
11. The arts and popular culture --
12. America as a world power.
Twelve years of research result in answers in 1957 to what made America not just a conglomeration of individual wills and appetites, but a civilization. What are America's traditions and antecednets? How do people make a living, govern themselves, handle the problems of power and freedom? How are they divided ethnically and in classes? How do they court, make love, bring up and educate children? How do they work, play, express their creativity? What principles hold their civilization together? What gods do they worship, what beliefs give them strength, what dreams and fears are they moved by? This is a compendium of the answers to these questions in 1957.
26073
57-100979
Civilization--United States
National characteristics, American.
973.92 Ler 15