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Anotace:	WINNER OF THE 1973 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY The extraordinary advance comments on the back of this jacket underline the importance of Michael Kammen's People of Paradox. In this major interpretive work Mr. Kammen argues that most attempts to understand America's history and culture have minimized its complexity, and he demonstrates that, from our beginnings, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows how, during the years of colonization, especially in the century from 1660 to 1760, many ideas and institutions were transferred virtually unchanged from Britain, while, simultaneously, others were being transformed in the New World environment. As he unravels the tangled origins of our "bittersweet" culture, 'Mr. Kammen makes us see t hat unresolved contradictions in the American experience have functioned as the prime characteristic of our national style. Puritanical and hedonistic, idealistic and materialistic, peace-loving and war-mongering, isolationist and interventionist, consensus-minded and conflict-prone-these opposing strands go back to the roots of our history.
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