This Pulitzer Prize-winning final volume of "The Americans" trilogy covers the century following the Civil War (1868-1969). It explores the highways and byways of the American experience, from the Go-Getters who explored new boundaries to the triumph of man landing on the Moon.
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Daniel J. Boorstin describes a post-Civil War America united not by ideological conviction or religious faith but by common participation in ordinary living: "A new civilization found new ways of holding men together--less and less by creed or belief, by tradition or by place, more and more by common effort and common experience, by the apparatus of daily life, by their ways of thinking about themselves." This is not a familiar litany of names, dates, and places, but an anecdotal account that rises far above impressionism and paints a compelling portrait of the United States as it climbed to new heights. Sheer reading pleasure for lovers of history, this fittingly ambitious conclusion to the Americans trilogy won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1973. --John J. Miller
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'Mr. Boorstin tells the story of the invention of a new democratic culture and the reorientation of the national character through countless little revolutions in economy, technology, and social rearrangements... Illuminated by reflections that are original, judicious and sagacious...' - Henry Steele Commager
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- PublisherPhoenix Press (London)
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1842120743
- ISBN 13 9781842120743
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages736
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