Table of Contents 
PART I. THE STUDY OF NATIONAL CHARACTER 
[. The Historians and National Character 
IT The Behavioral Scientists and National Character 
PART II. ABUNDANCE AND THE SHAPING 
OF AMERICAN CHARACTER 
Introduction to Part II 
III. The Nature of American Abundance 
IV. Abundance, Mobility, and Status 
V. Democracy and Abundance 
VIL. Abundance and the Mission of America 
VII. Abundance and the Frontier Hypothesis 
VIII. The Institution of Abundance: Advertising 
IX. Abundance and the Formation of Character 
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