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The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Americans, Bk. 3)
The Americans The Democratic Experience - Americans, Bk. 3 Author:Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel J. Boorstin describes a post-Civil War America united not by ideological conviction or religious faith but by common participation in ordinary living: "A new civilization found new ways of holding men together--less and less by creed or belief, by tradition or by place, more and more by common effort and common experience, by the apparatu... more »s of daily life, by their ways of thinking about themselves." This is not a familiar litany of names, dates, and places, but an anecdotal account that rises far above impressionism and paints a compelling portrait of the United States as it climbed to new heights. Sheer reading pleasure for lovers of history, this fittingly ambitious conclusion to the Americans trilogy won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1973. -- John J. Miller
Final volume in a trilogy, the first of which is the author's "The Americans: The Colonial Experience", and the second of which is his "The Americans: The National Experience".« less