David Riesman

After college my first job was teaching assistant in a course on "American character and social structure" given by the social observer David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd.

Craig K. Comstock: After the American Dream Craig K. Comstock 2011

David Riesman, a professor of medical history, writes, “These practices not only eliminated the plague as a pandemic menace for the first time in history but also led to general laws against infectious diseases, thereby laying the foundations upon which modern hygiene rests.”

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

David Riesman, a professor of medical history, writes, “These practices not only eliminated the plague as a pandemic menace for the first time in history but also led to general laws against infectious diseases, thereby laying the foundations upon which modern hygiene rests.”

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

After college my first job was teaching assistant in a course on "American character and social structure" given by the social observer David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd.

Craig K. Comstock: After the American Dream Craig K. Comstock 2011

David Riesman, a professor of medical history, writes, “These practices not only eliminated the plague as a pandemic menace for the first time in history but also led to general laws against infectious diseases, thereby laying the foundations upon which modern hygiene rests.”

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

David Riesman, a professor of medical history, writes, “These practices not only eliminated the plague as a pandemic menace for the first time in history but also led to general laws against infectious diseases, thereby laying the foundations upon which modern hygiene rests.”

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

By the middle of the last century, at the time Willy Loman was hawking his wares, Americans could not face "the possibility of defeat in one's personal life or one's work without being morally destroyed," according to sociologist David Riesman.

Redefining Failure 2010

The assigned reading included not only Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Sartre, but also late-1950s critiques of societal conventions like The Organization Man by William H. Whyte, The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, and The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, along with the political theories of Hegel, Mill, and Marx.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

The assigned reading included not only Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Sartre, but also late-1950s critiques of societal conventions like The Organization Man by William H. Whyte, The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, and The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, along with the political theories of Hegel, Mill, and Marx.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

The assigned reading included not only Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Sartre, but also late-1950s critiques of societal conventions like The Organization Man by William H. Whyte, The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, and The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, along with the political theories of Hegel, Mill, and Marx.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010