Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Samuel A. Stouffer and military sociology / David R. Segal
  • Meet Sam Stouffer
  • Stouffer in the interwar years
  • Impulses and stimuli for the Research Branch
  • The Research Branch rising
  • The Research Branch refined
  • Structure and findings of the American soldier
  • Reception and criticism of the American soldier
  • Stouffer, the Research Branch, and the American soldier postbellum
  • Epilogue