| Description |
xiii, 416 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction The house of many gables / Robert J. Brugger -- 1. Joseph and his brothers A story of the Putnam family / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum -- 2. Jonathan Edwards as great man Identity, conversion, and leadership in the Great Awakening / Richard L. Bushman -- 3. The American Revolution The ideology and psychology of national liberation / Edwin G. Burrows and Michael Wallace -- 4. Politics and personality Loyalists and revolutionaries in New York / N.E.H. Hull, Peter C. Hoffer, and Steven L. Allen -- 5. Thomas Jefferson Self and society / Winthrop D. Jordan -- 6. Slavery and personality / Stanley M. Elkins -- 7. Control, sexual attitudes, self-mastery, and civilization Abolitionists and the erotic South / Ronald G. Walters -- 8. Abraham Lincoln and the melodrama of the house divided / George B. Forgie -- 9. The hysterical woman Sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- 10. The use and abuse of illness in the James family circle A view of neurasthenia as a social phenomenon / Howard M. Feinstein -- 11. Personality and cultural history in the novel Two American examples / Cushing Strout -- 12. Were populists irrational? / James M. Youngdale -- 13. Why America loved Teddy Roosevelt Or, charisma is in the eyes of the beholders / Kathleen Dalton -- 14. Oedipus and America Historical perspectives on the reception of psychoanalysis in the United States / John Demos -- 15. Nothing to fear Notes on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt / Joan M. Erikson -- 16. Toward a psychohistorical inquiry The "real" Richard Nixon / Bruce Mazlish -- 17. America's new survivors The image of My Lai / Robert Jay Lifton -- 18. The narcissistic personality of our time / Christopher Lasch |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 405-414 |
| Subject |
Psychohistory.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934 -- Psychological aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011485
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| Author |
Brugger, Robert J.
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| LC no. |
80026343 |
| ISBN |
080182382X (corrected) |
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080182382X (paperback) |
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