The healing of a nation.
| Author/creator | Loye, David |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | [1st ed.]. |
| Publication Info | New York : Norton, [1971] |
| Description | 381 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 note | Bibliography: p. 358-368. |
| LCCN | 75123409 |
| ISBN | 0393086283 |
| Stock number | $8.95 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E185.61 .L69 1971 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |