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Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Americanization of Narcissism

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 367 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0674724860

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    Howard L. Kaye

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Kaye, H.L. Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Americanization of Narcissism . Soc 52, 287–291 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9900-8

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