American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American CharacterBloomsbury Academic, 1984 M03 14 - 221 pages |
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ACT values aggressive Amer American culture American toughness assertiveness attitudes behavior belying device boys British chap Christopher Lasch classless competitive concern with toughness consumer corporate cult Daniel David Riesman democratic Despite dime novels dynamic early economic effeminacy elite especially Eugene Burdick fear fiction football frontier Gamesman groups hard Harvey Wheeler hero historical ican idea images individual industrial James John John Dizikes Jonathan Livingston Seagull Kennedy laconic language less Maccoby machismo male manly masculinity military modern moral movie myth Nathan Todd ness nineteenth century notions of toughness novels organization paperback physical political popular produced public school puritan Richard Rip Kirby roles Rupert Wilkinson self-reliance sexual society soft strength Strenuous stress styles term theme Theodore Roosevelt tion Tom Wolfe tough-guy twentieth century Ugly American upper-class urban versus virility Western World World War II writers York