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The Americans, the Colonial Experience
by Daniel Boorstin
- HISTORY
- 1964
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- 434 PAGES
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions. Essays cover Quakers, Puritans, philanthropists and transplanters, details of colonial life, language, education, medicine, astronomy and fashion. The first book in a trilogy written by the former director of the Library of Congress.
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