This volume presents the first comprehensive study of Americans' pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking. Beginning with the colonial period, when the Puritan and Quaker ethic of hard work held sway, and ending with Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's contrasting philosophies of what constitutes the good life, Shi examines the many different ways Americans have lived the simple life as he explores its meaning in America's cultural history.
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This volume presents the first comprehensive study of Americans' pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking. Beginning with the colonial period, when the Puritan and Quaker ethic of hard work held sway, and ending with Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's contrasting philosophies of what constitutes the good life, Shi examines the many different ways Americans have lived the simple life as he explores its meaning in America's cultural history.
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