Making Americans: An Essay on Individualism and Money

by Quentin Anderson

Drawing on the work of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, John Dewey, and Henry James, an essay on individualism discusses how these famous "individualists" responded to the economic realities of capitalism. By the author of The American Henry James.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1992

Reviews

[Will · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sequel of sorts to Anderson's acclaimed Imperial Selves. The first hundred pages on Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville are very thorough readings of their subjects. The rest of the book—on Dewey, Henry James, Eliot, Pound, and American literary culture in general—is so slight I don't see the point.