- Series
- Portrait of the American
- Air Date
- 1966-02-18
- Duration
- 00:29:20
- Episode Description
- Fourth theme: the American self. Inner-direction to other direction.
- 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
- Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 (Interviewee)Hassan, Ihab Habib, 1925- (Interviewee)Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin) (Interviewee)Howe, Irving (Interviewee)Schuck, Victoria (Interviewee)Farmer, James, 1920-1999 (Interviewee)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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