A More Perfect Union Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II

"Readable and well-crafted, A More Perfect Union contributes significantly to modern American cultural history. With originality and insight, Linda Sargent Wood traces key intellectual and cultural trends that converged after World War II to create a 'holistic' worldview whose influence crested in the 1960s and early '70s." -Paul S. Boyer, Editor in Chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History "This is a very important book, one that breaks new ground in recovering and analyzing very important aspects of the histories of the long 1960s. It avoids the easy way out of seeing this period as a series of separate decades and therefore helps us understand the period and the phenomena she describes as a whole. Wood effectively reveals a critically important cultural movement/moment-one whose impulses were central to the period and retain their presence in our world. The writing is vigorous and clear; the research very thorough."-Daniel Horowitz, Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies, Smith College "Makes a strong, well-argued case for holism's pervasiveness and influence; and the research and writing are impressive." -- CHOICE