The Colonial Experience: The Americans Trilogy: 1: v.1 - Softcover

Boorstin, Daniel

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9781842120736: The Colonial Experience: The Americans Trilogy: 1: v.1

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ISBN 10: 1842120735 ISBN 13: 9781842120736

Publisher: Orion, 2000

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This first volume in "The Americans" trilogy defines the unique qualities of the American nation and rediscovers the American character and way of life as it was shaped in the decisive years between the coming of the Pilgrims and the winning of Independence.

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"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

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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.

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