Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In Character And Politics

David Riesman in collaboration with Nathan Glazer

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1952

Beschreibung

First Edition (SD). You can see the green covers in the photos. They are very clean. The spine is not toned. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The wear on the covers is fairly minor, some crinkling at the spine ends, a crease above the front bottom corner, light rubbing at the corners and on the bottom edges. The top page edge has some light spotting, but none of it appears to have made its way onto the actual pages. I'm not seeing any spotting off the top edges of any of the pages. The middle and bottom page edges look very good. Importantly, this 751 page book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The interior of the book is in very good shape. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I'm not finding any instances of soiling. The white inside covers and end papers are also very clean. No foxing of any kind. There isn't much wear on the pages. Right below the tip of the top corner of a half-dozen consecutive there's a teeny tiny crease. And probably because of a slight bump there is a very light, vague crease just above a group of bottom corners, nothing that folded in, nothing like that. And finally a bump/nick created a short sliver of a crease just off the outer edge of the final six pages and the index pages and rear end papers, nothing much of anything, far from the print. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first three photos. I've always had it in a fitted protective cover. There are thin losses at the spine's top edge. There are couple of thin tears off the front top edge, one tear with a small spot of loss off the front bottom edge, one small tear off the rear bottom edge. The white covers are pretty clean, no stains, just some light handling soiling. The white flaps are quite clean, the rear one has just a bit of mild edge wear. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. 'In these searching studies in character and politics, Mr. Riesman continues his productive explorations into the minds of Americans that he began with The Lonely Crowd. The second book probes the lives of some of the people who make up the lonely crowd; it shows how they respond to political, social, and personal issues of their days, and why they come to represent the inner- and other-directed character, the apathy and indifference that Mr. Riesman described in his earlier book. The crowd is composed of men and women of widely varied occupations, ages and social classes-- young people in preparatory and trade schools, slum dwellers in Harlem, the rich and successful in the suburbs. To learn about these and other Americans, interviewers asked significant questions; the questions are given in full with the answers and the author's illuminating analysis. Faces In The Crowd may be read as a separate volume; it also supplies evidence for the picture that was so promisingly presented in the first book.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004615

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In ...

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Erscheinungsdatum: 1952

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good Plus

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition