The Americans: The Colonial Experience: 1 (Americans Series) - Softcover

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394705130 ISBN 13: 9780394705132

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1964

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.

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Review:

"What made the Americans Americans? This is the question posed by Daniel J. Boorstin in a thoughtful, readable and often provocative book." --Wesley Frank Craven, The New York Times

"This is an ambitious book, well-documented throughout, with many stimulating ideas. . . . Mr. Boorstin is searching for the the grandiose motives, probing the words and actions of the colonists for contemporary meaning." --Hebert Mitgang, The New York Times

"Mr. Boorstin's focus in this impressive essay in intellectual history is the interplay between ideas and institution. Using this as his perspective, he offers a fresh and arresting reading of the colonial mind." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white hot days of the Revolution." - Bruce Lancaster, Saturday Review

From the Publisher:

Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this is “...an amazingly stimulating and brilliant study of America’s past in which its present may be recognised and its future envisioned” Saturday Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0394705130
• ISBN 13: 9780394705132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448