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The cult of individualism : a history of an enduring American myth / Aaron Barlow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barlow, Aaron, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Individualism--United States.
- Individualism.
- United States.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- page cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2013]
- Contents:
- Myths, cults, and cultures
- The individual in two American cultures
- From the borderlands to Ulster to the western colonies to be American
- Alone in the wilderness : the myth of Daniel Boone, the reality of the border, the rise of Jackson, and the background of John Brown
- How the other half lives
- The townspeople, the hero, and alienation
- Keeping it all apart.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781440828294
- 1440828296
- 9781440828300
- 144082830X
- OCLC:
- 842337380
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