Of herds and hermits :: America's lone wolves and submissive sheep, or the American intellectual as loner and outcast /

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 soli...

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1. Verfasser: Reed, Terry, 1937-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Algora Pub., ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (214 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
ISBN:9780875866864
0875866867