Introduction : On American character -- An anthropologist looks at America / Margaret Mead -- The American cast of mind / Ralph Barton Perry -- From inner-direction to other-direction / David Riesman -- The organization man / William H. Whyte -- Halloween and the mass child / Gregory P. Stone -- A changing American character? / Seymour Martin Lipset -- American women and the American character / David M. Potter -- American individualism in the twentieth century / David M. Potter -- The M-factor / George W. Pierson -- The pursuit of loneliness / Philip E. Slater -- The greening of America / Charles Reich -- The culture of narcissism / Christopher Lasch -- Searching for self-fulfillment / Daniel Yankelovich -- Individualism and commitment in American life / Robert N. Bellah et al. -- American values and organized crime : suckers and wiseguys / Peter A. Lupsha -- The control of anger / Carol Z. and Peter N. Stearns -- A Bibliography : Ideas and their background
