Portraits from the Americans, the democratic experience : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery based on Daniel J. Boorstin's Pulitzer Prize winning book /
Portraits from the Americans, the democratic experience : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery based on Daniel J. Boorstin's Pulitzer Prize winning book /
with excerpts from the text and a new introd. by Daniel J. Boorstin ; captions, Rick Beard, Frederick S. Voss, Kenneth A. Yellis ; picture research, Monroe H. Fabian, Marjorie Share ; coordinator of exhibitions, Beverly Jones Cox ; exhibition designer, Joseph Michael Carrigan.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Random House, [1975]
- xv, 159 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Issued in hard cover and paperbound form.
Rounding Up Rock Oil -- Generalized Go-Getters -- THe Sewing Machine -- The Reaper -- The Telephone -- The Phonograph -- The Automobile -- Consumer's Palaces -- Nationwide Customers -- Self-Service -- Miss Periodicals -- Enlisting the Farmers: Mail Order and RFD -- Populariing the Tasteful Home -- A new Science of Numbers: The Cenus -- Spreading the Risk: The Rise of Insurance -- The Incorruptible Cashier: The Cash Register -- Statistical Morality -- Streetcar Suburbs -- Antidotes for the City -- Cities withtin Cities -- The Decline of the Miraculous: Varying the Everyday Menu -- From Packing to Packaging: A Democracy of Things -- Democratizing the College: Land-Grant Colleges -- The Rise of the High School -- Culture for All -- Search for Novelty: The Social Inventor.
Issued in hard cover and paperbound form.
0394498968 9780394498966 0394731050 9780394731056
75010269
Portraits, American--Exhibitions.
Civilization.
Portraits, American.
United States--Civilization--Exhibitions.
United States.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs.
E169.1 / .N3745 1975
973/.074/0153
Issued in hard cover and paperbound form.
Rounding Up Rock Oil -- Generalized Go-Getters -- THe Sewing Machine -- The Reaper -- The Telephone -- The Phonograph -- The Automobile -- Consumer's Palaces -- Nationwide Customers -- Self-Service -- Miss Periodicals -- Enlisting the Farmers: Mail Order and RFD -- Populariing the Tasteful Home -- A new Science of Numbers: The Cenus -- Spreading the Risk: The Rise of Insurance -- The Incorruptible Cashier: The Cash Register -- Statistical Morality -- Streetcar Suburbs -- Antidotes for the City -- Cities withtin Cities -- The Decline of the Miraculous: Varying the Everyday Menu -- From Packing to Packaging: A Democracy of Things -- Democratizing the College: Land-Grant Colleges -- The Rise of the High School -- Culture for All -- Search for Novelty: The Social Inventor.
Issued in hard cover and paperbound form.
0394498968 9780394498966 0394731050 9780394731056
75010269
Portraits, American--Exhibitions.
Civilization.
Portraits, American.
United States--Civilization--Exhibitions.
United States.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs.
E169.1 / .N3745 1975
973/.074/0153