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BL
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1007539
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b761909
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| Main Entry
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Reed, Terry,1937-
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| Title & Author
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Of herds and hermits : : America's lone wolves and submissive sheep, or the American intellectual as loner and outcast /\ Terry Reed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Algora Pub.,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (214 pages)
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| ISBN
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0875866867
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: 9780875866864
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9780875866840
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9780875866857
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 1. The Bike and the Bench; Chapter 2. Going My Way; Chapter 3. What Price Affiliation?; Chapter 4. Yours Fraternally: Bringing in the Sheep; Chapter 5. The Intellectual as Loner; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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Celebrated for its commitment to independence and fearless individualism, America in fact dismisses independent thinkers and nonconformists in favor of the team player, the company man, and the go-along-to-get-along mentality. This anti-intellectual mindset despises and discredits those who are solitary and reclusive. While we look up to literary loners like Poe and Melville and Dickinson, the man in the street is a compulsive joiner of clubs, and herds from university frats to the Order of the Pink Goat. To the contrary, this book is a paean vigorously endorsing America's lone wolves, cultura.
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Group identity-- United States.
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Individualism-- United States.
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Interpersonal relations-- United States.
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Social role-- United States.
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Group identity.
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Individualism.
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Interpersonal relations.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.
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Social role.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.5/40973
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HM1276.R44 2009eb
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| Parallel Title
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American intellectual as loner and outcast
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