The Americans: The National Experience - Softcover

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394703588 ISBN 13: 9780394703589

Publisher: Vintage, 1967

Synopsis

This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters.  Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

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Review:

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.

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

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0394703588
• ISBN 13: 9780394703589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528