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The search for identity; essays on the American character.

Title
The search for identity; essays on the American character. Edited by Roger Shinn.
Publication
New York, Institute for Religious and Social Studies; distributed by Harper & Row [1964]

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Additional Authors
Shinn, Roger Lincoln.
Description
xi, 204 p.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Religion and civilization series
Subject
  • National characteristics, American
  • African Americans
  • United States > Civilization > 1945-
Note
  • A Jacob Ziskind Memorial publication.
  • "The Series of addresses delivered at the Institute for Religious and Social Studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America during the winter of 1962-1963, a series made possible by funds from the George Meany Foundation of The Herbert H. Lehman Institute."--p. [vi]
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The American search for self-understanding, by R.L. Shinn.--The idea of national character, by M. Mead.--Religion and the two faces of America, by J.L. Blau.--The transforming power of the sciences, by H.K. Schilling.--The American character and urbanization, by D.J. Clark.--Labor-management relations in industrial society, by T.W. Kheel.--American politics and American character, by E.J. McCarthy.--The impact of mass communications, by R.T. Baker.--Society and the self in recent American literature, by N.A. Scott.--The making of an American, by R.W. Lynn.--Race and the divided American soul, by K. Haselden.--World struggle and American character, by H.F. Reissig.--The American conscience, by Y. Fukuyama.--Is this a time of crisis for the American character? By R.L. Shinn.
Call Number
Sc 917.3-I (Institute for Religious and Social Studies. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Search for identity)
LCCN
64016361
OCLC
  • 419884
  • NYPGR419884-B
Title
The search for identity; essays on the American character. Edited by Roger Shinn.
Imprint
New York, Institute for Religious and Social Studies; distributed by Harper & Row [1964]
Series
Religion and civilization series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Shinn, Roger Lincoln.
Research Call Number
Sc 917.3-I (Institute for Religious and Social Studies. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Search for identity)
ILH (Shinn, R. L. Search for identity)
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