ABSTRACT
"The discussion of each period is wide-ranging, analyzing movements and spotlighting major figures in politics and philosophy, law and literature, economics and education, jazz and journalism, science and civil rights. A readable, insightful overview of the underlying patterns that give shape to U.S. cultural history. Nonacademic readers will find Crunden's selective bibliographical essay helpful". -- Booklist
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
A Local Culture 1630–1815
part II|71 pages
A Sectional Culture 1815–1901
part III|56 pages
The Northern Nation
part IV|52 pages
A National Culture 1901–1941
part V|97 pages
A Cosmopolitan Culture