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Paperback. Condition: Good. America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty?a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts. "The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of view of the participants, was a governing theme with Potter. . . . This sounds like a truism. Watching him apply it however, is a revelation."?Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The best short book on national character I have seen . . . broadly based, closely reasoned, and lucidly written."?Karl W. Deutsch, Yale Review.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty?a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts. "The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of view of the participants, was a governing theme with Potter. . . . This sounds like a truism. Watching him apply it however, is a revelation."?Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The best short book on national character I have seen . . . broadly based, closely reasoned, and lucidly written."?Karl W. Deutsch, Yale Review.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty?a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts. "The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of view of the participants, was a governing theme with Potter. . . . This sounds like a truism. Watching him apply it however, is a revelation."?Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The best short book on national character I have seen . . . broadly based, closely reasoned, and lucidly written."?Karl W. Deutsch, Yale Review.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War. --Civil War HistoryDavid M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the classic study of of antebellum America (American Prospect). Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War (Journal of Southern History). …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War. --Civil War HistoryDavid M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the classic study of of antebellum America (American Prospect). Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War (Journal of Southern History). …

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