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

Name: American Beliefs What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United
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ISBN: 9781566633147

ISBN-10: 1566633141

ISBN-13: 9781566633147

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: John Harmon McElroy

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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.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 8/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.97" wide x 9.02" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface



What Do We Mean by "Culture"?



How American Culture Was Formed



Primary Beliefs of American Culture



Immigrant Beliefs



Frontier Beliefs



Religious and Moral Beliefs



Social Beliefs



Political Beliefs



Beliefs on Human Nature



American Culture Today, and Tomorrow



List of American Cultural Beliefs


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index