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(Paperback)
By: Constance Rourke
ISBN: 9781590170793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character" examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, the minstrel singer, and the stroller to show how the popular comic imagination has contributed to America's changing self-awareness.
