Steven Cedrone
11-14-2003, 06:01 PM
The Americans: The Colonial Experience (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=113&book=TATCE12)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
In this first installment of his groundbreaking trilogy, The Americans, Daniel Boorstin explores the foundations of American institutions and the American psyche. A history not of famous men, wars and negotiations, but of ideas, cultural formations and the materials of everyday life, The Colonial Experience challenges us to think differently about history. It earned him the Bancroft Prize in 1959. The opening chapters of The Colonial Experience discuss the peculiar characteristics of some of the original colonists: the Puritans, the Quakers, the settlers of Georgia and Virginia. In Boorstin's account, the emigration to the new world produced a unique environment in which the traditions of the old were set in dynamic tension with the opportunities and uncertainties of life in a new world.
The Americans: The National Experience (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=1170&book=TATNE13)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Covering the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Americans: The National Experience, the second volume of Daniel Boorstin's award-winning trilogy, examines the realities of everyday life for the early pioneers as well as for those living in the established population centers on the Atlantic coast. Daniel J. Boorstin’s second volume of the trilogy The American: The National Experience won the Francis Parkman Prize. He graduated from Harvard University with highest honors and received his doctorate from Yale University. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. Boorstin lives with his wife and editor, Ruth F. Boorstin, in Washington, D.C.
The Americans: The Democratic Experience (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=1170&book=TATDE14)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
The third installment of his popular and widely-respected trilogy, The Americans: The Democratic Experience examines the formation of a distinctively American character. Covering the period between the Civil War and the moon landing, the book discusses the realities of everyday life for the intrepid souls filling in the frontiers, for the emigrants coming from Ireland, Italy and elsewhere, and for those already living in the growing population centers on the Atlantic coast. Most interestingly, Boorstin convincingly relates those foundational experiences to the unique character of present-day American institutions and practices. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Americans: The Democratic Experience is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand present-day American culture.
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Steve
by Daniel J. Boorstin
In this first installment of his groundbreaking trilogy, The Americans, Daniel Boorstin explores the foundations of American institutions and the American psyche. A history not of famous men, wars and negotiations, but of ideas, cultural formations and the materials of everyday life, The Colonial Experience challenges us to think differently about history. It earned him the Bancroft Prize in 1959. The opening chapters of The Colonial Experience discuss the peculiar characteristics of some of the original colonists: the Puritans, the Quakers, the settlers of Georgia and Virginia. In Boorstin's account, the emigration to the new world produced a unique environment in which the traditions of the old were set in dynamic tension with the opportunities and uncertainties of life in a new world.
The Americans: The National Experience (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=1170&book=TATNE13)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Covering the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Americans: The National Experience, the second volume of Daniel Boorstin's award-winning trilogy, examines the realities of everyday life for the early pioneers as well as for those living in the established population centers on the Atlantic coast. Daniel J. Boorstin’s second volume of the trilogy The American: The National Experience won the Francis Parkman Prize. He graduated from Harvard University with highest honors and received his doctorate from Yale University. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. Boorstin lives with his wife and editor, Ruth F. Boorstin, in Washington, D.C.
The Americans: The Democratic Experience (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=1170&book=TATDE14)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
The third installment of his popular and widely-respected trilogy, The Americans: The Democratic Experience examines the formation of a distinctively American character. Covering the period between the Civil War and the moon landing, the book discusses the realities of everyday life for the intrepid souls filling in the frontiers, for the emigrants coming from Ireland, Italy and elsewhere, and for those already living in the growing population centers on the Atlantic coast. Most interestingly, Boorstin convincingly relates those foundational experiences to the unique character of present-day American institutions and practices. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Americans: The Democratic Experience is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand present-day American culture.
If you have problems with the links, go here... (http://www.microsoft.com/reader/promotions/free_shop.asp)
Steve