The Americans - The Democratic Experience

The third and final volume of Daniel Boorstin's classic social history of the United States. This book recaptures the drama and the meaning of the countless and sometimes little-noticed revolutions which occurred, not in legislatures or on battlefields, but in our homes and farms and factories and schools and stores - making something surprising and unprecedented of our everyday experience. On aspects of live from Christmas to air conditioning, from the rise of the candy bar to the decline of grammar, Boorstin asks`What has life come to mean - and ceased to mean - to us late-20th century Americans?'....