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Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought,

A distinguished collection of scholarly essays that reflect the recent academic growth of American Studies as well as various approaches to understanding Americ

"A vibrant, sweeping analysis of the roots of American self-indulgence" --Kirkus Reviews "This ringing, provocative jeremiad cuts a path through a haze of self-

Who are we as Americans? What is our deep identity? How do we make a good life? Renowned psychologist Dan P. McAdams suggests that the key to American identity

Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the li