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The Americans : the national experience / by Daniel J. Boorstin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : History Book Club by arrangement with Random House, 2002Description: xi, 517 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780965369305 (hbk.)
  • 0965369307 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 002 E 164 B724a 2002
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Contents:
Book one. Community. Part one. The versatiles: New Englanders. The sea leads everywhere -- Inventing resources: ice for the Indies -- Inventing resources: granite for a new stone age -- Organizing the American factory -- From skill to know-how: "a circulating current" -- A common-law way of thinking -- The improving spirit -- Part two. The transients: joiners. On the continent-ocean: men move in groups -- The organizers -- Community before government -- The natural law of transient communities: claim clubs and priority rule -- The natural law of transient communities: vigilantism and majority rule -- Leaving things behind -- Getting there first -- The democracy of haste -- Part three. The upstarts: boosters. The businessman as an American institution -- The booster press -- "Palaces of the public" -- The balloon-frame house -- Culture with many capitals: the booster college -- Competitive communities -- Part four. The rooted and the uprooted: Southerners, White and Black. How the planter lost his versatility -- Indelible immigrants -- Invisible communities: the Negroes' churches -- The unwritten law: how it grew in slavery -- How Southern gentlemen became honor-bound -- Metaphysical politics Book two. Nationality. Part five. The vagueness of the land. A half-known country: settlement before discovery -- Packaging a continent -- Government as a service institution -- Uncertain boundaries -- A dubious destiny -- Part six. American ways of talking. An ungoverned vocabulary -- Tall talk: half-truth or half-lie? -- Booster talk: the language of anticipation -- Names in profusion and confusion -- A declamatory literature -- Part seven. Search for symbols. Heroes or clowns? Comic supermen from a subliterature -- The mythologizing of George Washington -- How local patriotism made national heroes -- The quest for a national past -- A festival of national purpose -- Part eight. A spacious republic. The imperial vagueness: from sovereignty to Federalism -- The federal vagueness: born in secession -- Quests for definition: constitutions of the United States -- Unionist ways from a Secessionist tradition.
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The second volume of the author's trilogy; the first of which is The Americans, the colonial experience; and the third of which is The Americans, the democratic experience.

LC copy inscribed by the author. DLC

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book one. Community. Part one. The versatiles: New Englanders. The sea leads everywhere --
Inventing resources: ice for the Indies --
Inventing resources: granite for a new stone age --
Organizing the American factory --
From skill to know-how: "a circulating current" --
A common-law way of thinking --
The improving spirit --
Part two. The transients: joiners. On the continent-ocean: men move in groups --
The organizers --
Community before government --
The natural law of transient communities: claim clubs and priority rule --
The natural law of transient communities: vigilantism and majority rule --
Leaving things behind --
Getting there first --
The democracy of haste --
Part three. The upstarts: boosters. The businessman as an American institution --
The booster press --
"Palaces of the public" --
The balloon-frame house --
Culture with many capitals: the booster college --
Competitive communities --
Part four. The rooted and the uprooted: Southerners, White and Black. How the planter lost his versatility --
Indelible immigrants --
Invisible communities: the Negroes' churches --
The unwritten law: how it grew in slavery --
How Southern gentlemen became honor-bound --
Metaphysical politics Book two. Nationality. Part five. The vagueness of the land. A half-known country: settlement before discovery --
Packaging a continent --
Government as a service institution --
Uncertain boundaries --
A dubious destiny --
Part six. American ways of talking. An ungoverned vocabulary --
Tall talk: half-truth or half-lie? --
Booster talk: the language of anticipation --
Names in profusion and confusion --
A declamatory literature --
Part seven. Search for symbols. Heroes or clowns? Comic supermen from a subliterature --
The mythologizing of George Washington --
How local patriotism made national heroes --
The quest for a national past --
A festival of national purpose --
Part eight. A spacious republic. The imperial vagueness: from sovereignty to Federalism --
The federal vagueness: born in secession --
Quests for definition: constitutions of the United States --
Unionist ways from a Secessionist tradition.

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