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crl-10194	Shera, Jesse Hauk	Foreign Influence American Life; Essays and Critical Bibliographies (book review)	1946	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1314	48	49	Despite every effort to advance national unity, particularly in the early days of the republic, through the achievement of cultural independence, American life in almost all of its phases, economic, political, and social, has always been fundamentally derivative. Recognizing that such a treatment can have no pretense to finality, the editor of the volume here re- viewed speaks with a disarming candor of his objectives: to seek merely to define the prob- lem, to describe the basic forms of cultural impact and assimilation, to trace something of their history in American life, and to sur- JANUARY, 1946 95 vey or illustrate their more manifest effects (p. vi).	cache/crl-10194.pdf	txt/crl-10194.txt