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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Vll chapter 1 The Practice of Piety | 3 |
The Age of Reason | 22 |
Common Sense | 39 |
The Power of Sympathy | 51 |
The Ancient Regime | 67 |
Home Influence | 85 |
The Gates Ajar | 106 |
The Spirit of Poetry | 125 |
When Knighthood Was in Flower | 180 |
Their Yesterdays | 201 |
The Plastic Age | 224 |
Little Man What Now? | 246 |
Postscript How to Win Friends and Influence People | 283 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST | 289 |
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX | 301 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste History of America's Literary Taste |
| Author | James David Hart |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1950 |
| ISBN | 0520005384, 9780520005389 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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