{"product_id":"the-americans-the-national-experience-paperback","title":"The Americans: The National Experience - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Boorstin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores problems of community and the search for a national identity. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nation was beginning not at one time or place, but again an again, under men's very eyes. Americans were forming new communities and reforming old communities all over the world expanse of the western world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Boorstin\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, a trilogy (\u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Experience; The National Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Democratic Experience)\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 7.99 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 1967\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49989029789851,"sku":"9780394703589","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/4602\/1275\/files\/OgQMaLYgZO9780394703589.webp?v=1793339779","url":"https:\/\/www.statesideqm.com\/products\/the-americans-the-national-experience-paperback","provider":"Stateside Quartermaster, Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}