Daniel J. Boorstin

The Americans: The National Experience (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience-the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307756473
• Artikelnr.: 39205472

Autorenporträt

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.