The simple life
plain living and high thinking in American culture
by David Emory Shi
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"From Puritans and Quakers to Boy Scouts and hippies, our quest for the simple life is an enduring, complex tradition in American culture. Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, David E. Shi introduces a rich cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.".
"In the diversity of their aspirations and failings, Shi finds that nothing is simple about our mercurial devotion to the idea of plain living and high thinking. Though we may hedge a bit in practice and are now and then driven by motives no deeper than nostalgia, Shi stresses that the diverse efforts to avoid anxious social striving and compulsive materialism have been essential to the nation's spiritual health."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, Simplicity, Intellectual life, Civilization, American National characteristics, National characteristics, American, Manners and customs, Lebensqualität, Zivilisation, American national characteristics, Geschichte, Einfachheit, Kultur, Popular culture, united statesPlaces
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The simple life: plain living and high thinking in American culture
2001, University of Georgia Press
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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture
March 20, 1986, Oxford University Press, USA
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0195040139 9780195040135
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The simple life: plain living and high thinking in American culture
1985, Oxford University Press
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0195034759 9780195034752
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
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