The Americans: The Democratic Experience
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Random House | May 12, 1973 | ISBN-10: 0394487249 | 717 pages | PDF | 2.8 MB
Random House | May 12, 1973 | ISBN-10: 0394487249 | 717 pages | PDF | 2.8 MB
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.