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9781566633147

American Beliefs What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United

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    9781566633147

  • ISBN10:

    1566633141

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-08-15
  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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Summary

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. --Charles Moskos.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
What Do We Mean by ``Culture''?
3(7)
How American Culture Was Formed
10(27)
Primary Beliefs of American Culture
37(23)
Immigrant Beliefs
60(33)
Frontier Beliefs
93(15)
Religious and Moral Beliefs
108(40)
Social Beliefs
148(17)
Political Beliefs
165(41)
Beliefs on Human Nature
206(14)
American Culture Today, and Tomorrow
220(7)
Appendix: List of American Cultural Beliefs 227(2)
Notes 229(10)
Bibliography 239(14)
Acknowledgments 253(2)
Index 255

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