- Series
- Portrait of the American
- Air Date
- 1966-01-17
- Duration
- 00:29:16
- Episode Description
- Affluence continued; critique of, guilt about, use and misuse of. Money as the root of "evil" opposed to innocence.
- 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
- Harrington, Alan, 1919- (Interviewee)Fishwick, Marshall W. (Marshall William), 1923-2006 (Interviewee)Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 (Interviewee)Whyte, William Hollingsworth (Interviewee)Howe, Irving (Interviewee)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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