The Cycles of American History

Arthur M. Schlesinger, J. (1986). The Cycles of American History. Houghton Mifflin.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1986

Link

https://archive.org/details/cyclesofamerican0000schl

Cited from

history_historiography

Cited by

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Primes

• Great Man Theory
  • The narrative power of great-man framing also serves psychological functions: it makes history comprehensible, attributable, and apparently controllable by identifying individuals responsible for outcomes, whereas structural accounts leave responsibility diffuse and agency opaque.

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