The Americans: the colonial experience / Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914- Daniel J. Boorstin Collection(Library of Congress) DLC National characteristics, American. E188 .B72 973.2 BOA "First printing". First volume in a trilogy; the second of which is the author's The Americans: the national experience; and the third of which is his The Americans: the democratic experience. New York : Random House, 1958 1958 1958 Text 434 p. ; eng United States Civilization To 1783.