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twentieth century, changing forever
who we are and whom we admire, how
we act at job interviews and what we
look for in an employee, how we court
our mates and raise our children. America
had shifted from what the influential
cultural historian Warren Susman
called a Culture of Character to a Culture
of Personality—and opened up a
Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties
from which we would never quite
recover.
In the Culture of Character, the ideal
self was serious, disciplined, and honorable.
What counted was not so much
the impression one made in public as
how one behaved in private. The word
personality didn’t exist in English until
the eighteenth century, and the idea of
“having a good personality” was not
widespread until the twentieth.
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