The Americans: The National Experience

BOORSTIN, Daniel J.

Published by Random House, New York, 1965

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Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. x, 517pp. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of the second volume in this trilogy -- and tipped to front flyleaf is a sheet of Boorstin's 5" X 8" imprinted "Office of the Director" letterhead from the National Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution, which he has inscribed and signed large and bold in blue fineline: "Greetings / from / Daniel J Boorstin." The first book in this trilogy, "The Americans: The Colonial Experience" (1958), was awarded the Bancroft Prize for best book on history, the second volume was awarded the Francis Parkman Prize, and the third volume, "The Americans: The Democratic Experience" (1973), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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The Americans: The National Experience

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Random House, New York

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1965

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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