| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Individualism -- United States
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Social role -- United States
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Group identity -- United States
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Interpersonal relations -- United States
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Group identity
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Individualism
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Interpersonal relations
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Social role
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780875866864 |
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0875866867 |
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