Americans: the National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (1967, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394703588
ISBN-139780394703589
eBay Product ID (ePID)144528

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Book TitleAmericans: the National Experience
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1967
TopicMinority Studies, Social History, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorDaniel J. Boorstin
Book SeriesAmericans Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-153525
Reviews"Boorstins achievement is to compel us to see again, ranged in order, the whole mass of attitudes and mechanisms that arise from American difference, and to display his material so abundantly and ingeniously that we see aspects of the nations' past as if for the first time." --Marcus Cunliffe, Book Week "This is the history of a nation 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes. I can only repeat that this is a fine book--controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work." --George Dangerfield, The New York Times Book Review "This exceptionally good book . . .  abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us." -- The New Yorker, "Boorstins achievement is to compel us to see again, ranged in order, the whole mass of attitudes and mechanisms that arise from American difference, and to display his material so abundantly and ingeniously that we see aspects of the nations' past as if for the first time." -- Marcus Cunliffe, Book Week "This is the history of a nation 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes. I can only repeat that this is a fine book -- controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work." -- George Dangerfield, The New York Times Book Review "This exceptionally good book ... abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us." -- The New Yorker, "Boorstins achievement is to compel us to see again, ranged in order, the whole mass of attitudes and mechanisms that arise from American difference, and to display his material so abundantly and ingeniously that we see aspects of the nations' past as if for the first time." -- Marcus Cunliffe, Book Week "This is the history of a nation 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes. I can only repeat that this is a fine book -- controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work." -- George Dangerfield, The New York Times Book Review "This exceptionally good book ... abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us." -- The New Yorker From the Trade Paperback edition.
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal917.303
SynopsisThis 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.
LC Classification NumberE162.B68 1965

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  • A very educational read - formation of the US character

    This is a very readable history of the early US and describes and analyzes how and why the American mind-set diverged so much from European, particularly British. On the negative side for this reader: too much detail, long winded, about slavery. Otherwise, the book provides a good history of the westward expansion of the early US and how the pioneering spirit imprinted a definitive character onto the American psyche.

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