The Americans: The National Experience - Softcover
Explores problems of community and the search for a national identity. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
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Daniel J. Boorstin, one of America's great historians, focuses on American ingenuity and emergent nationalism in this middle book of the Americans trilogy, dealing with a period extending roughly from the Revolution to the Civil War. Like its two companion volumes, The National Experience is a sometimes quirky look at how certain patterns of living helped shape the character of the United States. The book simply overflows with ideas, all of them introduced in entertaining chapters on subjects such as the New England ice industry and the boomtowns of the Midwest.
From the Back Cover:
Boorstin is a delight to read, a genuine polymath whose wide-ranging interests and love of learning show up on every page. --John J. Miller
The nation was beginning not at one time or place, but again an again, under men's very eyes. Americans were forming new communities and reforming old communities all over the world expanse of the western world.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 007553701X
- ISBN 13 9780075537014
- BindingPaperback
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