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The Americans: The Democratic Experience Written by Daniel J. Boorstin
		Category: History - United States - 19th Century Imprint: Vintage Format: Trade Paperback Pub Date: July 1974 Price: $21.00 Can. Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-71011-2 (0-394-71011-8) Pages: 736 Also available as an eBook.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Mr. Boorstin tells the story of the invention of a new democratic culture and the reorientation of the national character through countless little revolutions in economy, technology, and social rearrangements...Illuminated by reflections that are original, judicious and sagacious."--Henry Steele Commager

"A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white-hot days of the Revolution.... An amazingly stimulating and brilliant study of America's past in which its present may be recognized and its future envisioned."--Saturday Review

Also available from Vintage: Americans: The Colonial Experience and Americans: The National Experience.

WINNER 1974 - Pulitzer Prize