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Of herds and hermits : America's lone wolves and submissive sheep, or, The American intellectual as loner and outcast / Terry Reed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Terry, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Individualism--United States.
- Individualism.
- Social role--United States.
- Social role.
- Group identity--United States.
- Group identity.
- Interpersonal relations--United States.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Celebrated for its commitment to independence and fearless individualism, America in fact dismisses independent thinkers and nonconformists in favor of the team player, the company man, and the go-along-to-get-along mentality. This anti-intellectual mindset despises and discredits those who are solitary and reclusive. While we look up to literary loners like Poe and Melville and Dickinson, the man in the street is a compulsive joiner of clubs, and herds from university frats to the Order of the Pink Goat. To the contrary, this book is a paean vigorously endorsing America's lone wolves, cultura
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. The Bike and the Bench; Chapter 2. Going My Way; Chapter 3. What Price Affiliation?; Chapter 4. Yours Fraternally: Bringing in the Sheep; Chapter 5. The Intellectual as Loner; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87586-686-7
- OCLC:
- 460122224
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