The Americans: The National Experience
- ISBN-10
- 0307756475
- ISBN-13
- 9780307756473
- Series
- The Americans
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-07
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Description
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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