The Americans

Auteur

Hugo Munsterberg

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The Americans by Hugo Munsterberg stands alongside Alexis de Tocqueville's American Democracy as one of the great works on the New World written by a scholar deeply familiar with the Old World

Résumé
The Americans by Hugo Munsterberg stands alongside Alexis de Tocqueville's American Democracy as one of the great works on the New World written by a scholar deeply familiar with the Old World

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INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION
PREFACE
I. POLITICAL LIFE

1. THE SPIRIT OF SELF-DIRECTION
2. POLITICAL PARTIES
3. THE PRESIDENT
4. CONGRESS
5. JUSTICE
6. CITY AND STATE
7. PUBLIC OPINION
8. PROBLEMS OF POPULATION
9. INTERNAL POLITICAL PROBLEMS
10. EXTERNAL INTERNAL POLITICAL PROBLEMS
    II. ECONOMIC LIFE
11. THE SPIRIT OF SELF-INITIATIVE
12. THE ECONOMIC RISE
13. THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
    THE SILVER QUESTION
    THE TARIFF QUESTION
    THE TRUST QUESTION
    THE LABOUR QUESTION
    III. INTELLECUAL LIFE
14. THE SPIRIT OF SELF-PERFECTION
    I5. THE SCHOOLS AND POPULAR EDUCATION
15. THE UNIVERISITIES
16. SCIENCE
17. LITERATURE
18. ART
19. RELIGION
    IV. SOCIAL LIFE
20. THE SPIRIT OF SELF-ASSERTION
21. THE SELF-ASSERTION OF WOMEN
22. ARISTOCRATIC TENDENCIES
    INDEX