The healing of a nation.

Author/creator Loye, David
Format Book
Edition[1st ed.].
Publication InfoNew York : Norton, [1971]
Description381 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Pt. 1: the years of sickness and the search for therapies -- Of sickness and health: An introduction -- Some beginnings -- Fear conditioning and role imprisonment -- Freedom? -- Altruism, dissonance, and compromise -- Strange American dreams -- Manifest, latent, and sexual reality -- Red, white, and black -- Cognition, conformity, and man as insect -- Two ideas and some human beings -- Social action -- Violent and nonviolent -- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass -- Marx, conflict models, and the Anti-American creed -- Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Bureau -- Intervention and frustration -- Aggression theory -- Backlash and the failure of leadership -- Social Darwinism and the Jensen affair -- Black aspiration and leadership -- Expectancy, self-actualizing, and identity -- The new century -- Reform, myrdal and the American creed -- The sounds of salvation -- Pt. 2: healing the nation -- The healing urgencies -- The prescriptions of W. E. B. Du Bois -- Kurt Lewin's remedies: I -- Kurt Lewin's remedies: II -- Social physicians and the political imperative -- A program for a president.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 358-368.
LCCN 75123409
ISBN0393086283
Stock number$8.95

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E185.61 .L69 1971 ✔ Available Place Hold