Character in the American Experience

An Unruly People

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvBruce P. Frohnen,Ted V. McAllister

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What is an American? Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister argue that we are, in fact, a distinct people with our own common character that transcends race, gender, ethnicity, and class. They find in our current political conflicts a crisis of identity that stems from changes, not just in our political, economic, and technological environment, but in our ability to evaluate—and to value—the personalities that shaped our way of life. The history of the American character is filled with triumph as well as tragedy, and with virtue as well as vice. It is a story of cooperation and conflict among an unruly people, who from earliest days questioned authority even as they worked to establish communities of faith, family, and local freedom under extreme circumstances.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-15
Mått150 x 227 x 15 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitical Theory for Today
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666914528

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Introduction: Self, Character, and PeopleChapter 1: Unruly PilgrimsChapter 2: The Roots of American CultureChapter 3: SlaveryChapter 4: A Plural Nation: American Liberties and the Birth of a PeopleChapter 5: Conflict, Law, and RevolutionChapter 6: The Constitutional ConversationChapter 7: Cane Ridge and the New Protestant ConsensusChapter 8: “The Democracy” and Its LimitsChapter 9: Changing Circumstances, Abiding CharacterChapter 10: American Women and the Power of Self-SacrificeChapter 11: Civil War: The Deals that FailedChapter 12: Aftermath: Salvaging the Deal, or Replacing It?Chapter 13: The WestChapter 14: Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day, but Oklahoma City WasChapter 15: The Pursuit of ConsolidationChapter 16: Wall Street vs. Main Street: The Early Years. Or, from Populism to ProgressivismChapter 17: A Generation of ChangeChapter 18: A Changed GenerationChapter 19: Civil Rights and the Anti-Discrimination StateChapter 20: Radical Origins and IdealsChapter 21: Conflict

In Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People, Frohnen and McAllister plumb the American past to uncover the dispositions, habits, folkways, and institutions that have bound a people characterized by intense cultural, regional, and local differences. The burden of this remarkably readable and jargon free book is to disclose the unique ways such a diverse country have learned to cooperate and agree on matters of vital public interest and to disagree without rancor and division when consensus was unavoidable. For all those concerned about the forces dividing the country, and the means for containing those forces, this book is an essential must read.