Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 736 pages
- Published by: Vintage July 12, 1974
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0394710118
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0394710112
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Book Dimensions:
7.7 x 5.3 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
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
Product Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
Reader ReviewsMany have described Boorstin's "The Americans" series as being right-wing. I do not concur. He writes about a period, in reality our age, as if it is still happening because it is. The third and final book in the series shows that he is unsure if the changes from the Civil War to the present day have not all been for the betterment of mankind. Although written three decades ago, I would say that this book is more relevant than ever. I think that everyone should read "The Americans" series. There is a bit more of Boorstin's curmugeony personality in this last book, but don't let that disuade you from enjoying a very complex perspective of America in the Twentieth Century and, very possibly, the Twenty-First Century.
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