People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character
Author: David Morris Potter
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ISBN: 0226676331
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (June, 1954)
Sales Rank: 328,143
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Brilliant¿¿as in, truly illuminating
This is one of the seminal books on understanding what it means to be an American, and on what makes our character distinctive, if not utterly unique. Potter was a remarkable professor of American History at Stanford, where his final lecture in my Junior year taught me what the phrase " the crowd lept to its feet" meant. Among other remarkable traits, Potter never once uttered that or any other cliche in those lectures or in this extraordinary book. The work of a giant, engaging and accessible to almost anyone. Similar Products
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