Author: Robert J. Brugger
Publisher: Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Essays examining topics in the American experience ranging from vengeful accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Salem to the psychologically warping circumstances of the My Lai massacre. Sections include the psychology of the American Revolution; effects of slavery on personality; nineteenth-century sex roles; narcissism in current American culture. Biographical sections discuss notable American personalities in their historical setting including: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon.