The Americans
- ISBN-10
- 1842120751
- ISBN-13
- 9781842120750
- Series
- The Americans
- Category
- United States
- Pages
- 517
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Author
- Daniel Joseph 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.
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