The Americans.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
First sentence: America grew in the search for community.
Description: The third volume in Daniel Boorstin´s trilogy is a history of how European ideas and traditions and the experience of living in a New World shaped institutions, customs and world understanding in the new nation.   Inventiveness, lack of external supervision, and wide-open spaces lead to American vernacular, mythology, and governance.
Table of contents: title: New Beginnings
pagenum: vii; title: Book One: Community; title: Part One - The Versatiles: New Englanders
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: The Sea Leads Everywhere
pagenum: 5; label: 2
title: Inventing Resources:  Ice for the Indies
pagenum: 10; label: 3
title: Inventing Resources:  Granite for a New Stone Age
pagenum: 16; label: 4
title: Organizing the American Factory
pagenum: 20; label: 5
title: From Skill to Know-how: "A Circulating Current"
pagenum: 26; label: 6
title: A Common-Law Way of Thinking
pagenum: 35; label: 7
title: The Improving Spirits
pagenum: 43; title: Part Two -The Transients: Joiners
pagenum: 49; label: 8
title: On the Continent-Ocean: Men Move in Groups
pagenum: 51; label: 9
title: The Organizers
pagenum: 57; label: 10
title: Community before Government
pagenum: 65; label: 11
title: The Natural Law of Transient Communities: Claim Clubs and Priority Rule
pagenum: 72; label: 12
title: The Natural Law of Transient Communities: Vigilantism and Majority Rule
pagenum: 81; label: 13
title: Leaving Things Behind
pagenum: 90; label: 14
title: Getting There First
pagenum: 97; label: 15
title: The Democracy of Haste
pagenum: 107; title: Part Three - The Upstarts: Boosters
pagenum: 113; label: 16
title: The Businessman as an American Institution
pagenum: 115; label: 17
title: The Booster Press
pagenum: 124; label: 18
title: "Palaces of the Public"
pagenum: 134; label: 19
title: The Balloon-Frame House
pagenum: 148; label: 20
title: Culture with Many Capitals:  The Booster College
pagenum: 152; label: 21
title: Competitive Communities
pagenum: 161; title: Part Four - The Rooted and the Uprooted: Southerners, White and Black
pagenum: 169; label: 22
title: How the Planter Lost His Versatility
pagenum: 171; label: 23
title: Indelible Immigrants
pagenum: 179; label: 24
title: Invisible Comunities: The Negroes' Churches
pagenum: 190; label: 25
title: The Unwritten Law:  How it Grew in Slavery
pagenum: 199; label: 26
title: How Southern Gentlemen Became Honor-bound
pagenum: 206; label: 27
title: Metaphysical Politics
pagenum: 212; title: Book Two: Nationality; title: Part Five: The Vagueness of the Land
pagenum: 221; label: 28
title: A Half-Known Country:  Settlement Before Discovery
pagenum: 223; label: 29
title: Packaging a Continent
pagenum: 241; label: 30
title: Government as a Service Institution
pagenum: 249; label: 31
title: Uncertain Boundaries
pagenum: 256; label: 32
title: A Dubious Destiny
pagenum: 264; title: Part Six: American Ways of Talking
pagenum: 275; label: 33
title: An Ungoverned Vocabulary
pagenum: 277; label: 34
title: Talk Talk: Half-Truth or Half-Lie?
pagenum: 289; label: 35
title: Booster Talk:  The Language of Anticipation
pagenum: 296; label: 36
title: Names in Profusion and Confusion
pagenum: 299; label: 37
title: A Declamatory Literature
pagenum: 307; title: Part Seven:  Search for Symbols
pagenum: 325; label: 38
title: Heroes or Clowns?  Comic Supermen from a Subliterature
pagenum: 327; label: 39
title: The Mythologizing of George Washington
pagenum: 337; label: 40
title: How Local Patriotism Made National Heroes
pagenum: 356; label: 41
title: The Quest for a National Past
pagenum: 362; label: 42
title: A Festival of National Purpose
pagenum: 323; title: Part Eight:  A Spacious Republic
pagenum: 391; label: 43
title: The Imperial Vagueness:  From Sovereignty to Federalism
pagenum: 393; label: 44
title: The Federal Vagueness:  Born in Secession
pagenum: 400; label: 45
title: Quests for Definition:  Constitutions of the United States
pagenum: 406; label: 46
title: Unionist Ways from a Sucessionist Tradition
pagenum: 417; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 431; title: Bibliographical Notes
pagenum: 433; title: Index
pagenum: 497