BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
New York: Random House, 1958.
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First Edition of The Americans: The Colonial Experience; Signed by Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Daniel J. Boorstin
First edition of the first volume in Daniel J. Boorstin's celebrated trilogy The Americans, a landmark study of the colonial roots of the American character. Octavo, original cloth, top stain blue. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition.
American historian at the University of Chicago Daniel J. Boorstin wrote on a wide variety of topics in American and world history and was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Boorstin's writings emphasized the unity of the American people and especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story. The Americans: The Colonial Experience explores the years between the arrival of the Pilgrims and America's Declaration of Independence.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
$850.00
In Stock
