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Autore: |
Reed Terry <1937->
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Titolo: |
Of herds and hermits : America's lone wolves and submissive sheep, or, The American intellectual as loner and outcast / / Terry Reed
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Algora Pub., 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina: | 302.5/40973 |
Soggetto topico: | Individualism - United States |
Social role - United States | |
Group identity - United States | |
Interpersonal relations - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 1. The Bike and the Bench; Chapter 2. Going My Way; Chapter 3. What Price Affiliation?; Chapter 4. Yours Fraternally: Bringing in the Sheep; Chapter 5. The Intellectual as Loner; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Celebrated for its commitment to independence and fearless individualism, America in fact dismisses independent thinkers and nonconformists in favor of the team player, the company man, and the go-along-to-get-along mentality. This anti-intellectual mindset despises and discredits those who are solitary and reclusive. While we look up to literary loners like Poe and Melville and Dickinson, the man in the street is a compulsive joiner of clubs, and herds from university frats to the Order of the Pink Goat. To the contrary, this book is a paean vigorously endorsing America's lone wolves, cultura |
Titolo autorizzato: | Of herds and hermits ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-87586-686-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821281403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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