- American National characteristics, Character, Ethnopsychology, National characteristics, American
**The Lonely Crowd** is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), it is considered a landmark study of American character. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Crowd))
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Cool, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Riesman
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Verlag, Doubleday and company, Inc., Garden city, New York, Yale
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- English, German, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780585371962
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“This is a book about social character and about the differences in social character between men of different regions, eras, and groups.”
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