The Americans: The Democratic Experience,9780394710112

The Americans: The Democratic Experience

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ISBN13: 9780394710112
ISBN10: 0394710118
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1974-07-12
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.

Author Biography

Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.

Table of Contents

Changes ix
BOOK ONE EVERYWHERE COMMUNITIES 3(304)
PART ONE The Go-Getters 3(86)
1. "Gold from the Grass Roots Up"
5(13)
2. Rituals of the Open Range
18(8)
3. Private Wars for the Public Domain
26(8)
4. Lawless Sheriffs and Honest Desperadoes
34(7)
5. Rounding Up Rock Oil
41(12)
6. Generalized Go-Getters: Lawyers
53(11)
7. Exploiting the Federal Commodity: Divorce and Gambling
64(13)
8. Crime As a Service Institution
77(12)
PART TWO Consumption Communities 89(76)
9. A Democracy of Clothing
91(10)
10. Consumer's Palaces
101(8)
11. Nationwide Customers
109(4)
12. Goods Sell Themselves
113(5)
13. How Farmers Joined Consumption Communities
118(12)
14. Citifying the Country
130(7)
15. A New Freedom for Advertisers: Breaking the Agate Rule
137(8)
16. Building Loyalty to Consumption Communities
145(3)
17. "The Consumer Is King"
148(9)
18. Christmas and Other Festivals of Consumption
157(8)
PART THREE Statistical Communities 165(80)
19. A Numerical Science of Community: The Rise of the Average Man
167(6)
20. Communities of Risk
173(15)
21. Statistical Expectations: What's Your Size?
188(5)
22. Making Things No Better Than They Need to Be
193(7)
23. "The Incorruptible Cashier"
200(5)
24. Income Consciousness
205(9)
25. The Rediscovery of Poverty
214(5)
26. Measuring the Mind
219(8)
27. From "Naughtiness" to "Behavior Deviation"
227(11)
28. Statistical Morality
238(7)
PART FOUR The Urban Quest for Place 245(62)
29. An American Diaspora
247(5)
30. Politics for City Immigrants
252(9)
31. Stretching the City: The Decline of Main Street
261(12)
32. Booming the Real Estate Frontier
273(8)
33. Antidotes for the City: Utopia, Renewal, Suburbia
281(10)
34. Cities within Cities: The Urban Blues
291(16)
BOOK TWO THE DECLINE OF THE MIRACULOUS 307(104)
PART FIVE Leveling Times and Places 307(52)
35. Condense! Making Food Portable through Time
309(7)
36. Meat for the Cities
316(6)
37. Varying the Everyday Menu
322(10)
38. People's Palaces on Wheels
332(4)
39. Walls Become Windows
336(10)
40. Homogenizing Space
346(13)
PART SIX Mass-Producing the Moment 359(52)
41. Time Becomes Fungible: Packaging the Unit of Work
361(9)
42. Making Experience Repeatable
370(20)
43. Extending Experience: The New Segregation
390(7)
44. The Decline of the Unique and the Secret
397(5)
45. In Search of the Spontaneous
402(9)
BOOK THREE A POPULAR CULTURE 411(114)
PART SEVEN The Thinner Life of Things 411(38)
46. Endless Streams of Ownership
413(9)
47. New Penumbras of Property
422(6)
48. The Semi-Independent Businessman
428(6)
49. From Packing to Packaging: The New Strategy of Desire
434(15)
PART EIGHT Language, Knowledge, and the Arts 449(76)
50. The Decline of Grammar: The Colloquial Conquers the Classroom
451(11)
51. From Oratory to Public Speaking: Fireside Politics
462(16)
52. A Higher Learning for All
478(12)
53. Educating "the Great Army of Incapables"
490(12)
54. Art Becomes Enigma
502(12)
55. The Exotic Becomes Commonplace
514(11)
BOOK FOUR THE FUTURE ON SCHEDULE 525(74)
PART NINE Search for Novelty 525(32)
56. The Social Inventor: Inventing for the Market
527(10)
57. Communities of Inventors: Solutions in Search of Problems
537(9)
58. Flow Technology: The Road to the Annual Model
546(11)
PART TEN Mission and Momentum 557(42)
59. Prologue to Foreign Aid
559(9)
60. Samaritan Diplomacy
568(11)
61. Not Whether but When: The New Momentum
579(20)
Epilogue: Unknown Coasts 599(2)
Acknowledgments 601(4)
Bibliographical Notes 605(78)
Index 683

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