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This Pulitzer Prize-winning final volume of "The Americans" trilogy covers the century following the Civil War (1868-1969). It explores the highways and byways of the American experience, from the Go-Getters who explored new boundaries to the triumph of man landing on the Moon.
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The Americans: The Democratic Experience explores the highways and byways of the American experience from the Go-Getters who explored new boundaries - physical, social, economic - to the triumph of man landing on the moon. Lawless sheriffs and honest desperadoes; gamblers; real estate developers; oil barons; the almighty Consumer people the pages. Issues range from behaviour deviations to the decline of grammar and the homogenizing of space.
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