Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism -- PART I: High Modernism in America: Self and Society in the Early Cold War -- One. Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism -- Two. Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman -- Three. Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown's Freudian Revisions -- PART II: The Revolt of Romantic Modernism: Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians -- Four. A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills -- Five. Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin's Gift of Love -- Six. Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns -- Seven. Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin -- PART III: The Challenge of Late Modernism -- Eight. Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- Conclusion. The Legacy of Late Modernism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.