This second volume of The Americans explores the problems of community and the search for a national identity.
"This is the history of a nation from 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes.' I can only repeat that this is a fine book--controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work."--New York Times Book Review
"This exceptionally good book...abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us."--The New Yorker
Also available from Vintage: Americans: The Colonial Experience and Americans: The Democratic Experience.
WINNER
| 1966 Francis Parkman Prize
Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.
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This second volume of The Americans explores the problems of community and the search for a national identity.
"This is the history of a nation from 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes.' I can only repeat that this is a fine book--controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work."--New York Times Book Review
"This exceptionally good book...abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us."--The New Yorker
Also available from Vintage: Americans: The Colonial Experience and Americans: The Democratic Experience.
Awards
WINNER
| 1966 Francis Parkman Prize
Author
Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.
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