History Quote by Susan Cain

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a…

— Susan Cain

“America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality”

— Susan Cain

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would…

— Anonymous

“Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation.…

— Oswald Spengler

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

“Yet a period’s character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture, the name…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our…

— Susan Cain

“The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely…

— Clarence Lusane

“embodied the image of self-reliance, fair-play, and decency that are cited to this day as the American self-image, too often with scant accuracy or…

— Joseph Befumo

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

— Kiese Laymon