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plain living and high thinking in American culture

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An edition of The simple life (1985)

The simple life

plain living and high thinking in American culture

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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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English
Pages
332

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Cover of: The simple life
The simple life: plain living and high thinking in American culture
2001, University of Georgia Press
in English
Cover of: The Simple Life
The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture
March 20, 1986, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: The simple life
The simple life: plain living and high thinking in American culture
1985, Oxford University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Published in
Athens

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973
Library of Congress
E169.1 .S556 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 332 p. ;
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3950515M
Internet Archive
simplelifeplainl0000shid_z9j4
ISBN 10
0820323403
LCCN
2001043070
OCLC/WorldCat
47666991
Library Thing
140654
Goodreads
1551727

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