Part 1. Epigraph: Sailing thru the Straits of Demos / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Certain inherent contradictions: The American Experience / Henry Bamford Parkes -- Prevailing self-admiration: Crowd Culture / Bernard Iddings Bell -- European anti-Americanism: God's Country and Mine / Jacques Barzun -- Pervasive hipster skepticism: Patriotism / Paul Goodman -- A national style: The Classic American Style / W.W. Rostow -- Seminal contributions: Our Ten Contributions to Civilization / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. -- An intrinsically attractive type of human possibility: The Character of American Life / D.W. Brogan -- Ill at ease in Zion: The Self-Conscious Society / Eric Larrabee -- "Process" is the American quality: What's "American" about America? / John A. Kouwenhoven -- Old ideas and assumptions have been found wanting: Recent Trends in American Social Thought / John G. Sproat -- Anti-revolutionary, conservative America: America and the World Revolution / Arnold Toynbee -- Every society creates ideal images: Traditional Values in American Life / Ralph H. Gabriel -- The purpose is to pursue the happiness of our people: The Great Society / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Hypomania: An Analysis of the American Mind / Lord Taylor -- The interactions of science and society are stronger: One View of the Other USA / Steven Dedijer -- The giant corporation has transformed America: The Great Leap / John Brooks -- Intellectual and cultural activity still a minority taste: How Culturally Active are Americans? / Elmo Roper --
Part 2. Epigraph: Of Love and Death in the Garrison State I Sing / Karl Shapiro -- Some are more equal than others: The Ideology of Democracy in a Class System / William Lloyd Warner -- Close behavioral conformity: A Definition of Other-Direction / David Riesman -- Simple reporting of facts and events: After the Lost Generation / John W. Aldridge -- The old beacons burn dimly: Americans are Alone in the World / Luigi Barzini, Jr. -- Alienation and the intellectual: Statement on America and the Intellectuals / Sidney Hook -- The centralized state: The Power Elite / C.Wright Mills -- They accept: The Organization Man / William H. Whyte, Jr. -- Contrast in the economic spheres: The Affluent Society / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Deficient sense of self: The Quest for Identity / Allen Wheelis -- Switching to the American way of business: Is the World Going American? / U.S. News & World Report -- Religiousness without religion: Protestant-Catholic-Jew / Will Herberg -- Dominant qualities in architecture: The "American" in American Architecture / James Marston Fitch -- Flawed in his sainthood and grotesque in his criminality: Radical Innocence / Ihab Hassan -- Labor lacks mission: work lacks joy : Exegesis of the Gospel of Work Success and Satisfaction in Recent American Culture / John M. Blum -- Desecrated America: A Fable for Tomorrow / Rachel Carson -- The invisible poor: The Other America / Michael Harrington -- Afraid to be all the things she can be: Her Infinite Variety / Morton Hunt --
American women the most unhappy: The Unfinished Society / Herbert Von Borch
The strong should help the weak: The American Economic Republic / Adolf Berle, Jr.
Women's discontent: The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan
New York- a single most important part: Beyond the Melting Pot / Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
No "American" common denominator: What is American in American Art? / Lloyd Goodrich
The scientific-technological elite: Culture against Man / Jules Henry
Art establishes the basic human truth: Remarks at Amherst College upon Receiving an Honorary Degree / John F. Kennedy
Gracious dying: The American Way of Death / Jessica Mitford
The undermined male: The Crisis of American Masculinity / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
An ethnically heterogeneous establishment: The Protestant Establishment / E. Digby Baltzell
My beautiful black brothers and sisters: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Our crumbling citadels of virtue: The Fear of Immorality / John P. Sisk
A strata of violence: A Profile of Courage / Arthur L. Slaikeu
A massive change in the way men live together: The Secular City / Harvey Cox
The American mess is worse than any other: The American Landscape / Ian Nairn
America is a managed society: The Ability to Face Whatever Comes / Tom Hayden
A crisis has overtaken the American labor movement: Private Power and American Democracy / Grant C. McConnell
A gap between potential and actual performance: New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A. (a draft)
Purposeful, pragmatic, and prosperous: The Teen-Agers / Editors of Newsweek
The dominant value in American culture is personal independence: John F. Kennedy and American Catholicism / Lawrence H. Fuchs.
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