Book

We Americans / [prepared by National Geographic Book Service].

National Geographic Book Service. (Author). Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0870441345
ISBN: 9780870441349
Physical Description: 456 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
Publisher: Washington : National Geographic Society, [1975]
Copyright: ©1975

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Picturing our past -- From the land to the machine / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Voyage to Eden / Louis B. Wright -- Working the American land / Edmund S. Morgan -- Planting of cities / Blake McKelvey -- Living through a revolution / John R. Alden -- 1776 : birth of the nation -- A new world of learning / Gordon S. Wood -- Americans on the move / Ray Allen Billington -- Tying the nation together / William H. Goetzmann -- People's choice / William V. Shannon -- Living through a Civil War / David Herbert Donald -- 1876 : Centennial! / William Peirce Randel -- New ways of working / Elting E. Morrison -- World enters American / Ann Novotny -- Cities in the machine age / Blake McKelvey -- Automobile arrives / Bernard A. Weisberger -- American at play / Russell Lynes -- Gone to the movies / Richard Schickel -- On the Home front / Frank Freidel -- In everybody's living room / Erik Barnouw -- An American inventory / Ben J. Wattenberg -- Fertile machine / Daniel J. Boorstin.