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Restless Nation: Starting Over in America Tapa dura - 2000
de James M. Jasper
The author examines the American faith in relocating, and how Americans believe that by relocating, they can make themselves into new people -- make more money, get in touch with their inner selves, find spiritual truth, and recover their physical health. Photos.
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What is it that makes Americans so American? It can't be money: although the United States is the most productive economy in the world, it also has the highest poverty rates. It can't really be faith, either: Americans are the most religious people in the advanced industrial world, but they have the oldest official separation of church and state. Skepticism? Americans are highly suspicious of government, but at the same time they have a naive belief in markets. Is there such a thing as an American character amidst these, and other, paradoxes? In Restless Nation, James M. Jasper argues that this elusive national character can be found in Americans' faith in the fresh start. Americans believe that by relocating or changing their names or finding new jobs, they can make themselves into new people--make more money, get in touch with their inner selves, find spiritual truth, recover their physical health. American culture recommends flight from what you dislike and makes it easy to believe a better life is just around the corner, literally. It is this faith that has brought sixty million immigrants to the shores of the United States. And it is this faith that has put their descendants on the road for hundreds of years. Even today, Americans continue to move far more often--about every five years--than anyone else. From seventeenth-century publicity agents who extolled the virtues of the New World, to the great Northern migration of the early twentieth century, to yesterday's car commercials, Jasper sees a master narrative of restlessness that winds through American history. He traces this theme through four centuries of American history, using the life stories of famous and not-so-famous people, popular literature and other arts, and archives and statistics. Henry James, Houdini, Frederick Douglass, Bruce Springsteen, the Greek owner of a chain of laundries, and Huck Finn all make appearances in these pages, and Jasper's breadth of knowledge, wry humor, and utterly pleasurable style bring these stories together in an invigorating look at a complicated country. In the tradition of The Lonely Crowd and Habits of the Heart, Restless Nation explores what Americans are really like and how they came to believe so firmly in the "fresh start."
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- Título Restless Nation: Starting Over in America
- Autor James M. Jasper
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Printing
- Páginas 276
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Fecha de publicación 2000-11
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226394787 / 0226394786
- Peso 1.48 libras (0.67 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.29 x 6.29 x 1.12 pulgadas (23.60 x 15.98 x 2.84 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Emigration and immigration, Migration, Internal - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00009053
- Dewey Decimal Code 325.73
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- Choice, 07/01/2001, Page 2022
- Library Journal, 11/01/2000, Page 118
- Publishers Weekly, 09/11/2000, Page 75
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A unique and thoughtful examination of the American national character in which resides a strong ability to 'start over' and in a variety of ways, taking new jobs or founding new businesses, altering their inner selves, adapting and taking new attitudes towards the world around them, relocating, changing their names, finding spiritual truth, much more, thus enabling or seeking personal survival, prosperity, and happiness. Hardcover with dust jacket, suggestions for further reading, notes, indexed, 295pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in a plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2000. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 276 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches.
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