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The Americans: The Colonial Experience

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize

In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the current.
The first book in a trilogy–and in many respects the most efficient of the bunch–The Colonial Experience is an crucial interpretation of how the habits of people that lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of brand new Americans. Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of on a regular basis life far from the delicate centers of European civilization: “Old categories were shaken up, and new situations revealed unsuspected uses for old knowledge,” writes Boorstin. He starts with a series of penetrating essays at the Puritans of Massachusetts, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the philanthropists of Georgia, and the planters of Virginia, then tackles a set of diffuse topics that range from astronomy to language to medicine in fascinating vignettes.

The Colonial Experience is will have to reading for anybody interested within the development of the American character. –John J. Miller

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