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Geoffrey Gorer • 34 Items / 8 Books, 9 Articles, 17 Reviews
The American People (1948)
by Geoffrey Gorer
A Study in National Character
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Published Reviews
  1. Books
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    The Screen: For the Fun of It (Review)
    Florence Codman
    The American People, by Geoffrey Gorer
    1. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    Commonweal, March 26, 1948, pp. 597-601
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    Man as an American (Review)
    George Mayberry
    The American People, by Geoffrey Gorer
    1. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    The New Republic, March 29, 1948, p. 26
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    Reviews (Review)
    Richard Hofstadter
    The American People, by Geoffrey Gorer
    1. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    Political Science Quarterly, September 1948, pp. 440-441
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    Are We Tied to "Mom's" Apron String? (Review)
    Duncan Aikman
    The American People, by Geoffrey Gorer
    1. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    The Saturday Review, March 27, 1948, p. 10
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    The Easy Chair (2 Reviews)
    Bernard DeVoto
    Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, and Cly...
    1. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin, ...
    2. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1948, pp. 553-556
  6. Books
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    The Remaking of Man (4 Reviews)
    Geoffrey Gorer
    And Keep Your Powder Dry, by Margaret Mead
    1. And Keep Your Powder Dry by Margaret Mead
    2. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    3. Exploring English Character by Geoffrey Gorer
    4. New Lives for Old by Margaret Mead
    Encounter, November 1956, pp. 72-75
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    Call Them Educational (9 Reviews)
    Henry C. Tracy
    An American Dilemma, by Gunnar Myrdal, Richard Sterner, and Arnold Rose
    1. An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal, Richard Sterner, and Arnold Rose
    2. New Song in a Strange Land by Esther Sietmann Warner
    3. The Negro Entrepreneur by Vishnu V. Oak
    4. A Treasury of Jewish Folklore by Nathan Ausubel
    5. The Child's Book of Folklore by Marion Vallat Emrich and George Korson
    6. Summer at Yellow Singer's by Flora L. Bailey
    7. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    8. The More Perfect Union by Robert M. MacIver
    9. Higher Education for American Democracy
    Common Ground, Autumn 1948, pp. 110-111
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    Literary Sampler (13 Reviews)
    Excerpts and Jottings from New and Forthcoming Books
    1. The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
    2. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
    3. American Building by James Marston Fitch
    4. Stranger in the Earth by Thomas Sugrue
    5. Civilization on Trial by Arnold J. Toynbee
    6. The American Language: Supplement Two by H.L. Mencken
    7. Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka by Florence Frisbie
    8. That Winter by Merle Miller
    9. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    10. Folk Song, USA by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax
    11. The Threshold by Karin von Wahl
    12. The Turning Stream by Duncan Aikman
    13. Jefferson the Virginian by Dumas Malone
    The Saturday Review, April 17, 1948, pp. 16-17
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    Recent Books on International Relations (16 Reviews)
    Robert Gale Woolbert
    The United States
    1. The Turning Stream by Duncan Aikman
    2. The Mediterranean: Its Role in America's Foreign Policy by William Reitzel
    3. American Opinion on World Affairs in the Atomic Age by Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. and Sylvia Eberhart
    4. Bases and Empire: A Chart of American Expansion by George Marion
    5. The American People by Geoffrey Gorer
    6. American Democracy and World War by Frederic L. Paxson
    7. This Was Normalcy by Karl Schriftgiesser
    8. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941 by Dixon Wecter
    9. What the People Want by Ellis Gibbs Arnall
    10. The More Perfect Union by Robert M. MacIver
    11. Balance of Power: The Negro Vote by Henry Lee Moon
    12. Civil-Military Relationships in American Life by Jerome G. Kerwin
    13. Air Victory: The Men and the Machines by Harold B. Hinton
    14. Our Unknown Ex-President by Eugene Lyons
    15. Harry Truman, President by Frank McNaughton and Walter Hehmeyer
    16. Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs by Eugene V. Debs
    Foreign Affairs, January 1949, pp. 334-335