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The Americans: The Democratic Experience

by: BOORSTIN, DANIEL J.

The Americans: The Democratic Experience

by: BOORSTIN, DANIEL J.

ISBN 13: 9780394710112
ISBN 10: 0394710118
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/12/1974
Publisher: Vintage

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Summary

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

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BOOK ONE EVERYWHERE COMMUNITIES

(304)

PART ONE The Go-Getters

(86)

1. "Gold from the Grass Roots Up"

(13)

2. Rituals of the Open Range

(8)

3. Private Wars for the Public Domain

(8)

4. Lawless Sheriffs and Honest Desperadoes

(7)

5. Rounding Up Rock Oil

(12)

6. Generalized Go-Getters: Lawyers

(11)

7. Exploiting the Federal Commodity: Divorce and Gambling

(13)

8. Crime As a Service Institution

(12)

PART TWO Consumption Communities

(76)

9. A Democracy of Clothing

(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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