Author:
Paterson, Isabel, author.
Imprint:New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, 2015.
Descriptionlii, 256 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:PART I: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. 1. The true individualist: Thoreau -- 2. The reformer as tyrant -- 3. What is known as a practical man -- 4. The achievement of the Wright brothers -- 5. American concepts -- 6. But is it true? -- 7. What went wrong -- 8. The devolution of America -- 9. A question of privilege -- 10. Save us, at least, from boredom -- 11. The Nobel Prize in politics -- 12. The culture of communism -- 13. Freedom and control -- 14. Whose agent is he? -- 15. Monkey-gland economics -- 16. The elusive law of wages -- 17. The man with one idea -- 18. What do they do all day? -- 19. Adventures in biology and bunk -- 20. The riddle of Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott Decision -- 21. Has the world grown smaller? -- 22. A man of destiny -- 23. Learning to read: child's play -- 24. What the Christmas story means -- PART II: LETTERS. 25. Letters to 1940 -- 26. Letters, 1940-1949 -- 27. Letters, 1950 and after.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
