American Social Character

The late Rupert Wilkinson was emeritus professor of American Studies and History at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Interned as a small boy in Santo Tomas with his mother and older sister, he went on to publish ten books on aspects of American and British society.

Preface -- Introduction -- An Anthropologist Looks at America -- The American Cast of Mind -- From Inner-Direction to Other-Direction -- The Organization Man -- Halloween and the Mass Child -- A Changing American Character? -- American Women and the American Character -- American Individualism in the Twentieth Century -- The M-Factor -- The Pursuit of Loneliness -- The Greening of America -- The Culture of Narcissism -- Searching for Self-Fulfillment -- Individualism and Commitment in American Life -- American Values and Organized Crime: Suckers and Wiseguys -- The Control of Anger -- A Bibliography