| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0394487249 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
917.30392 Boo |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
917.30392 Boo |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Boorstin, Daniel Joseph |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Americans |
| Remainder of title |
The democratic experience |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Daniel J. Boorstin |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Random House |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1973 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
717 pages |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Book One: Everywhere communities -- Part One: The go-getters -- "Gold from the grass roots up" -- Rituals of the open range -- Private wars for the public domain -- Lawless sheriffs and honest desperadoes -- Rounding up rock oil -- Generalized go-getters: lawyers -- Exploiting the federal commodity: divorce and gambling -- Crime as a service institution -- Part Two: Consumption communities -- A democracy of clothing -- Consumers' palaces -- Nationwide customers -- Goods sell themselves -- How farmers joined consumption communities -- Citifying the country -- A new freedom for advertisers: breaking the agate rule -- Building loyalty to consumption communities -- "The consumer is king" -- Christmas and other festivals of consumption -- Part Three: Statistical communities -- A numerical science of community: the rise of the average man -- communities of risk -- Statistical expectations: what's your sizw? -- Making things no better than they need to be -- "The incorruptible cashier" -- Income consciousness -- The rediscovery of poverty -- Measuring the mind -- From "Naughtiness" to "Behavior Deviation" -- Statistical morality -- Part Four: The urban quest for place -- An American diaspora -- Politics for city immigrants -- stretching the city: the decline of main street -- Booming the real estate frontier -- Antidotes for the city: utopia, renewal, suburbia -- Cities within cities: the urban blues -- Book Two: The decline of the miraculous -- Part Five: Leveling times and places -- Condense! making food portable through time -- Meat for the cities -- Varying the everyday menu -- People's palaces on wheels -- Walls become windows -- Homogenizing space -- Part Six: Mass-producing the momnent -- Time becomes fungible: packaging the unit of work -- Making experience repeatable -- Extending experience: the new segregation -- The decline of the unique and the secret -- In search of the spontaneous -- Book Three: A popular culture -- Part Seven: The thinner life of things -- Endless streams of ownership -- New penumbras of property -- The semi-independent businessman -- From packing to packaging: the new strategy of desire -- Part Eight: Language, knowledge, and the arts -- The decline of grammar: the colloquial conquers the classroom -- From oratory to public speaking: fireside politics -- A higher learning for all -- Educating "the Great Army of Incapables" -- Art becomes enigma -- The exotic becomes commonplace -- Book Four: The future on schedule -- Part Nine: Search for novelty -- The social inventor: inventing for the market -- Communities of inventors: solutions in search of problems -- Flow technology: the road to the annual model -- Part Ten: Mission and momentum -- Prologue to foreign aid -- Samartian diplomacy -- Not whether but when: the new momentum -- Epilogue: Unknown costs. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Final volume in a trilogy; the first of which is the author's The Americans, the colonial experience; and the second of which is his The Americans, the national experience. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
42048 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Civilization |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Economic conditions |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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