TheAmericans_TheDemocraticExperience

BOOKS BY DANIEL J. BOORSTIN * Hidden History * The Discoverers * Democracy and Its Discontents * * * The Americans: The Colonial Experience The Americans: The National Experience The Americans: The Democratic Experience * * * The Mysterious Science of the Law The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson The Genius of American Politics America and the Image of Europe The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America The Decline of Radicalism The Sociology of the Absurd The Chicago History of American Civilization (27 vols.; editor) American Primer (editor) American Civilization (editor) * * * for young readers The Landmark History of the American People Vol. I: From Plymouth to Appomattox Vol. II: From Appomattox to the Moon FOR Ruth CHANGES In 1868, as the first transcontinental railroad was nearing completion, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., predicted the impending transformation of American experience: “Here is an enormous, an incalculable force … let loose suddenly upon mankind; exercising all sorts of influences, social, moral, and political; precipitating upon us novel problems which demand immediate solution; banishing th......