Individualism Reconsidered Author:David Riesman The essays in this volume were written before and after the author's path-breaking work, The Lonely Crowd. They deal with a range of questions troubling to Americans then and now, including: how to use one's leisure time, what kind of morality and values to adopt, how best to raise children, what kind of people are they to become? In addition,... more » this collection includes four long essays on aspects of the thought of Sigmund Freud.
At the time, the Saturday Review found the book "Sheer brilliance...a defense of individualism and of our inalienable right to be different, to have, to hold, and even to enjoy...."« less