- Series
- Portrait of the American
- Air Date
- 1966-02-26
- Duration
- 00:29:10
- Episode Description
- Self-reliance of Emerson and frontier thesis. Preoccupation with size, attitudes toward space, mobility, capabilities, dynamism, belief in free will.
- Series Description
- Series that examines assessments of the American using the themes of innocence, affluence, success and the American self. Features analysis by Dr. Betty Ch'maj, interviews, dramatic readings. Series features interviews with John Dos Passos, James Farmer, Marshall Fishwick, Alan Harrington, Ihab Hassan, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, R.W.B. Lewis, and William H. Whyte, Jr.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WDET (Radio station : Detroit, Mich.) (Producer)Wayne State University (Producer)Ch'maj, Betty E. M. (Host)Ch'maj, Betty E. M. (Producer)
- Contributors
- Fishwick, Marshall W. (Marshall William), 1923-2006 (Interviewee)Hassan, Ihab Habib, 1925- (Interviewee)Howe, Irving (Interviewee)Farmer, James, 1920-1999 (Interviewee)Schuck, Victoria (Interviewee)Kelly, Alfred H. (Alfred Hinsey), 1907-1976 (Interviewee)Holbrook, Hal (Speaker)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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