Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.
Contents
A foreword on the books that changed our minds -- Freud and "The interpretation of dreams" / George Soule -- "The education of Henry Adams" / Louis Kronenberger -- Turner's "The frontier in American history" / Charles A. Beard -- Sumner's "Folkways" / John Chamberlain -- Veblen and "Business enterprise" / R.G. Tugwell -- Dewey and his "Studies in logical theory" / C.E. Ayres -- Boas and "The mind of primitive man" / Paul Radin -- Beard's "Economic interpretation of the Constitution" / Max Lerner -- Richard's "The principles of literary criticism" / David Daiches -- Parrington"s "Main currents in American thought" / Bernard Smith -- Lenin's "The state and revolution" / Max Lerner -- Spengler's "The decline of the West" / Lewis Mumford -- An afterword on the modern mind.
