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Life in Middletown
Chase, Stuart | February 6, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Middletown," by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown is the pseudonym for a real community of 38,000 people somewhere in the Middle West. Financed by the Institute of Social and Religious Research, the authors lived there for over a year, studying every phase of the town's life, with the same detachment and the same objective thoroughness that a good anthropologist devotes to the habits of natives in the New Hebrides. Indeed, Clark Wissler writes the introduction to the volume. Nothing like it has ever before been attempted; no such knowledge of how the average U.S. community works and plays has ever been packed between the covers of one book.

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MIDDLETOWN (Book); LYND, Helen Merrell, 1896-1982; LYND, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970; COMMUNITIES; CITIES & towns; RESEARCH; MIDDLE West
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