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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.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Random House, [1975]Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 159 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394498968
  • 9780394498966
  • 0394731050
  • 9780394731056
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973/.074/0153
LOC classification:
  • E169.1 .N3745 1975
Contents:
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.
Summary: Issued in hard cover and paperbound form.
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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.

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