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Author Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004.

Title American civilization : a portrait from the twentieth century / Texts by William H. Goetzmann [and others] Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin.

Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, [1972]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  917.303 B644a 1972    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 352 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
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Note Includes index.
Contents Exploration's nation: the role of discovery in American history / William H. Goetzmann. -- A nation of nations: who are the Americans? / Nathan Glazer. -- Freedom and faith: spiritual attitudes of a new world / Martin E. Marty. -- Popular politics: the government of the people in action / Frank Freidel. -- Stages of enterprise: the business of America / W.W. Rostow. -- A changing federalism: American systems of laws and constitutions / Philip B. Kurland. -- Society, inequality, and manners: the new aristocracies of success / Walter Muir Whitehill. -- Teaching the nation: the development of American education / Marcus Cunliffe. -- New-world cities: architecture and townscape / Edmund N. Bacon. -- Entertainment arts: theater, music and film / Richard Schickel. -- Written words: the making of American literature / R.W.B. Lewis. -- Aesthetic America: the problem of reality / Harold Rosenberg. -- Missionary and world power: America's destiny in the twentieth century / Ernest R. May.
Subject United States -- Civilization.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Goetzmann, William H.
ISBN 0070064970
9780070064973

 
    
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