Our Selves/Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1981. Hardcover. "Our Selves/Our Past is the first collection of psychohistorical literature to deal exclusively with United States history. Its essays examine topics in the American experience ranging from vengeful accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Salem to the psychologically warping circumstances of the My Lai massacre. Selections include nonbiographical studies: Edwin G. Burrows and Michael Wallace on the psychology of the American Revolution; Stanley M. Elkins on the effects of slavery on personality; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg on nineteenth-century sex roles; and Christopher Lasch on narcissism in current American culture. Other articles discuss notable American personalities--Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon--in their historical setting." Very Good. Item #8042
ISBN: 0801823129
Octavo, xiii, 416 pp. Blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Lengthy inscription to Donald on ffep from unknown party. Clean, unmarked copy. No dust jacket (presumed as issued).
Price: $25.00