The Americans: The Democratic Experience
, by BOORSTIN, DANIEL J.
- ISBN: 9780394710112 | 0394710118
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/12/1974
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.
| Changes | ix | ||||
| BOOK ONE EVERYWHERE COMMUNITIES | 3 | (304) | |||
| PART ONE The Go-Getters | 3 | (86) | |||
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5 | (13) | |||
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18 | (8) | |||
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26 | (8) | |||
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34 | (7) | |||
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41 | (12) | |||
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53 | (11) | |||
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64 | (13) | |||
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77 | (12) | |||
| PART TWO Consumption Communities | 89 | (76) | |||
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91 | (10) | |||
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101 | (8) | |||
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109 | (4) | |||
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113 | (5) | |||
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118 | (12) | |||
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130 | (7) | |||
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137 | (8) | |||
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145 | (3) | |||
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148 | (9) | |||
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157 | (8) | |||
| PART THREE Statistical Communities | 165 | (80) | |||
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167 | (6) | |||
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173 | (15) | |||
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188 | (5) | |||
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193 | (7) | |||
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200 | (5) | |||
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205 | (9) | |||
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214 | (5) | |||
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219 | (8) | |||
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227 | (11) | |||
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238 | (7) | |||
| PART FOUR The Urban Quest for Place | 245 | (62) | |||
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247 | (5) | |||
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252 | (9) | |||
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261 | (12) | |||
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273 | (8) | |||
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281 | (10) | |||
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291 | (16) | |||
| BOOK TWO THE DECLINE OF THE MIRACULOUS | 307 | (104) | |||
| PART FIVE Leveling Times and Places | 307 | (52) | |||
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309 | (7) | |||
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316 | (6) | |||
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322 | (10) | |||
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332 | (4) | |||
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336 | (10) | |||
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346 | (13) | |||
| PART SIX Mass-Producing the Moment | 359 | (52) | |||
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361 | (9) | |||
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370 | (20) | |||
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390 | (7) | |||
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397 | (5) | |||
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402 | (9) | |||
| BOOK THREE A POPULAR CULTURE | 411 | (114) | |||
| PART SEVEN The Thinner Life of Things | 411 | (38) | |||
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413 | (9) | |||
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422 | (6) | |||
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428 | (6) | |||
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434 | (15) | |||
| PART EIGHT Language, Knowledge, and the Arts | 449 | (76) | |||
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451 | (11) | |||
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462 | (16) | |||
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478 | (12) | |||
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490 | (12) | |||
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502 | (12) | |||
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514 | (11) | |||
| BOOK FOUR THE FUTURE ON SCHEDULE | 525 | (74) | |||
| PART NINE Search for Novelty | 525 | (32) | |||
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527 | (10) | |||
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537 | (9) | |||
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546 | (11) | |||
| PART TEN Mission and Momentum | 557 | (42) | |||
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559 | (9) | |||
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568 | (11) | |||
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579 | (20) | |||
| Epilogue: Unknown Coasts | 599 | (2) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 601 | (4) | |||
| Bibliographical Notes | 605 | (78) | |||
| Index | 683 |
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