- Series
- Portrait of the American
- Air Date
- 1966-01-21
- Duration
- 00:28:30
- Episode Description
- Third theme: the American success myth; Protestant ethic; versions of individualism.
- 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
- Angell, Robert Cooley, 1899-1984 (Interviewee)Fishwick, Marshall W. (Marshall William), 1923-2006 (Interviewee)Harrington, Alan, 1919- (Interviewee)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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