American civilization; a portrait from the twentieth century

Physical description; 352 pages illustrations 36 cm. Contents; Exploration's nation: the role of discovery in American history / William H. Goetzmann. -- A nation of nations: who are the Americans? / Nathan Glazer. -- Freedom and faith: spiritual attitudes of a new world / Martin E. Marty. -- Popular politics: the government of the people in action / Frank Freidel. -- Stages of enterprise: the business of America / W.W. Rostow. -- A changing federalism: American systems of laws and constitutions / Philip B. Kurland. -- Society, inequality, and manners: the new aristocracies of success / Walter Muir Whitehill. -- Teaching the nation: the development of American education / Marcus Cunliffe. -- New-world cities: architecture and townscape / Edmund N. Bacon. -- Entertainment arts: theater, music and film / Richard Schickel. -- Written words: the making of American literature / R.W.B. Lewis. -- Aesthetic America: the problem of reality / Harold Rosenberg. -- Missionary and world power: America's destiny in the twentieth century / Ernest R. May. Subjects; United States -- Civilization. Civilization. United States.