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Culture as History the Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century

Warren Susman

With amazing creativity, clarity, and wit, Warren Susman (1927-1985) takes us on a provocative tour of the highlights of American culture. By looking at all types of 20th-century culture—highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow—Susman shows how culture itself has become a battleground for competing visions...

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It was discussed as a book that described the shift from a 'culture of character' to a 'culture of personality' in American culture, particularly around the turn of the 20th century.

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Warren Susman, he wrote this book called Culture as History, talking about American culture. And he purports that it's a turn of the 19th into the 20th century. We change from a quote unquote culture...

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It was discussed as a book that described the shift from a 'culture of character' to a 'culture of personality' in American culture, particularly around the turn of the 20th century.

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Warren Susman, he wrote this book called Culture as History, talking about American culture. And he purports that it's a turn of the 19th into the 20th century. We change from a quote unquote culture of character to culture of personality.

For the culture of character, he used like words like citizenship, duty, work, integrity. And he says above all manhood, whereas for personality, it's really interesting. He says fascinating, stunning, attractive, magnetic, in other words like that.

the vision of self sacrifice began to yield to that self realization.

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