Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character

by Claude S. Fischer

Book Overview

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People." But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today?

With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226251446
• ISBN13: 9780226251448
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"