David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy by... - 9781472428486

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David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing LegacyAuthor(s): Keith Kerr, B. Garrick Harden, Marcus Aldredge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472428486, 978-1472428486\nSynopsis\nIt has been over 60 years since David Riesmans most famous work The Lonely Crowd brought him international acclaim. While this remains a best-selling sociology book, Riesmans expertise and publications spanned far beyond the treatment of the American social character type offered there. This volume recasts and reintroduces Riesman by presenting newly discovered and unpublished manuscripts of his work, including excerpts from a previously unpublished critical biography of Freud that Riesman began with this assistant at the time, Philip Rieff, an interview in which Riesman describes in detail his early biography and his route into the social sciences, and other research notes and memoranda. With additional chapters analyzing the un.