Made in America
A Social History of American Culture and Character
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. The Stories We Tell
2. Security
3. Goods
4. Groups
5. Public Spaces
6. Mentality
7. Closing
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Works Cited
Index“The wants, needs, hopes, and aspirations of generations of Americans—‘all sorts and conditions’ of them—are given careful and circumspect attention in this arresting portrait of a nation ever, it seems, changing, growing. Here is a book that will tell its readers much about how and why a people once struggling to find and define themselves—the very terrain of their country, and too, its values and ideas—became the members of a United States of America whose many variations and sometime contradictions are brought tellingly alive in pages of clear, illuminating, and well-informed prose.”
“Made in America is a book rich in its findings and judicious in its interpretations. Fischer has uncovered a lot of things that even those of us who have long studied the United States didn’t know, and he has also expertly shown that many of the things we thought we knew are simply wrong. The book will make any reader wiser and more careful in thinking about this strange country in which we live.”
"[A] vastly ambitious project. . . . [R]eadable and entertaining .. . . [A] formidable achievement. . . . brought to life by the stories of ordinary people.”
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Won
Association of American Publishers: PROSE Book Award
Won
History: American History
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology | Social History
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