AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM

Annenberg Media, "Every Man For Himself: American Individualism," American Passages: A Literary Survey.

Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of Individualism in Democratic Countries," Democracy in America (1899). hypertext posted at Xroads by the American Studies Department at The University of Virginia.

1930's>Herbert Hoover>Rugged Individualism, Digital History, University of Texas.

Herbert Hoover, American Individualism (New York: Double Day, 1922), reprinted by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association.

Richard Hofstader, Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).

Robert N.  Bellah, "Individualism and Commitment in American Life," Lecture  at University of California Santa Barbara, February 20, 1986.

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 Conant, Oliver.  "The Hazards of American Individualism."  American Heritage 46.n5 (Sept 1995)85.

Grabb, Edward, Baer, Douglas and Curtis, James. "Origins of American Individualism: Reconsidering the Historical Evidence."  Canadian Journal of Sociology 24.4, Fall 1999, p511-33.

Hirschaman, Elizabeth C.  "Men, Dogs, Guns and Cars: The Semiotics of Rugged Individualism."  Journal of Advertising; Spring2003, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p9-22.

Mount, Jr. Eric. C.  "American Individualism Reconsidered."  Review of Religious Research; Jun81, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p362.

Wolfson, Adam.  "Individualism: New and Old."  Public Interest, Wntr 1997, n126, pp75(14).

 

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