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Shifts in American Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Clyde Kluckhohn
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In June 1957, when he sent this book to the publisher, Max Lerner must have been very tired. The jacket blurb says the preparation took more than twelve years, and this strikes one who has been working at the book for eight months as probably an understatement. As nearly as a lone individual can do, Lerner seems to have read almost everything about the United States. The “Notes for Further Reading” alone occupy 43 pages of small type. Portions of the manuscript were checked by no less than 142 “experts”: historians, government officials, musicians, journalists, social scientists, poets, architects, foundation officers, and others.

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World Politics , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , January 1959 , pp. 251 - 261
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1959

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References

1 “The Ideological Combat,” Foreign Affairs, XXVII, NO. 4 (July 1949), pp. 525–39.

2 I draw upon research conducted for M.I.T. during 1956–1957 and fully reported in my chapter in The American Style, ed. by Elting Morison, New York, 1958.

3 Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America, ed. by Bradley, Phillips, New York, 1954, II pp. 275–76.Google Scholar