A History of the United States
by Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Brooks Mather Kelley, Ruth Frankel Boorstin
American history is the story of magic transformation. How did people from everywhere join the American family? How did men and women from tired Old World, where people thought they knew what to expect, become wide-eyed exploreres of a New World?
Our history is the story of these millions in search of what it means to be an American. In the Old World people knew quite definitely whether they were English, French, or Spanish. But here is took time for them to discover that they really were Americans.
What does it mean to be an American? To answer that questions we must shake hands with our earlier selves and try to become acquainted. We must discover what puzzled and interested and troubled earlier Americans.
What has been especially American about out ways of living and earning a living? Our ways of making war and making peace? Our ways of thinking and hoping and fearing, of worshiping God and fighting the Devil? Our ways of traveling and politicking, or importing people, of building houses and cities? These are some of the questions we try to answer in this book.
Discoving America is a way of discovering outselves. This is a book about us.
-Prologue
Our history is the story of these millions in search of what it means to be an American. In the Old World people knew quite definitely whether they were English, French, or Spanish. But here is took time for them to discover that they really were Americans.
What does it mean to be an American? To answer that questions we must shake hands with our earlier selves and try to become acquainted. We must discover what puzzled and interested and troubled earlier Americans.
What has been especially American about out ways of living and earning a living? Our ways of making war and making peace? Our ways of thinking and hoping and fearing, of worshiping God and fighting the Devil? Our ways of traveling and politicking, or importing people, of building houses and cities? These are some of the questions we try to answer in this book.
Discoving America is a way of discovering outselves. This is a book about us.
-Prologue
HistoryUnited States
RELEASED1989
PUBLISHERPrentice Hall
LENGTH891
LANGUAGEEN
An American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.
A History of the United States
by Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Brooks Mather Kelley, Ruth Frankel Boorstin
American history is the story of magic transformation. How did people from everywhere join the American family? How did men and women from tired Old World, where people thought they knew what to expect, become wide-eyed exploreres of a New World?
Our history is the story of these millions in search of what it means to be an American. In the Old World people knew quite definitely whether they were English, French, or Spanish. But here is took time for them to discover that they really were Americans.
What does it mean to be an American? To answer that questions we must shake hands with our earlier selves and try to become acquainted. We must discover what puzzled and interested and troubled earlier Americans.
What has been especially American about out ways of living and earning a living? Our ways of making war and making peace? Our ways of thinking and hoping and fearing, of worshiping God and fighting the Devil? Our ways of traveling and politicking, or importing people, of building houses and cities? These are some of the questions we try to answer in this book.
Discoving America is a way of discovering outselves. This is a book about us.
-Prologue
Our history is the story of these millions in search of what it means to be an American. In the Old World people knew quite definitely whether they were English, French, or Spanish. But here is took time for them to discover that they really were Americans.
What does it mean to be an American? To answer that questions we must shake hands with our earlier selves and try to become acquainted. We must discover what puzzled and interested and troubled earlier Americans.
What has been especially American about out ways of living and earning a living? Our ways of making war and making peace? Our ways of thinking and hoping and fearing, of worshiping God and fighting the Devil? Our ways of traveling and politicking, or importing people, of building houses and cities? These are some of the questions we try to answer in this book.
Discoving America is a way of discovering outselves. This is a book about us.
-Prologue
HistoryUnited States
RELEASED1989
PUBLISHERPrentice Hall
LENGTH891
LANGUAGEEN
An American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.
