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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
Portraits from the Americans the Democratic Experience An Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery Based on Daniel J Boorstin's Pulitzer Prize Winning Book Author:National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Daniel J. Boorstin This collection is a visual unfolding of Daniel J. Boorstin?s monumental, prize-winning book The Americans: The Democratic Experience. Like the much-heralded National Portrait Gallery Exhibition of the same name, it is a stunning ?picture album? ? with over 200 photographs, many never published before, and extensive captions ? depicting the peop... more »le, the inventions, and the achievements that have transformed our daily lives since the Civil War.
Shown here, along with the pictures of their accomplishments, are the ?go-getters? such as John D. Rockefeller, R.G. Dun and John Bradstreet; inventors ? Cyrus McCormick, Isaac Singer, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison; ?builders of consumption communities? ? R. H. Macy, F.W. Woolworth, Montgomery Ward, and Richard Sears; the men who created our modern menu, from Gail Borden to Clarence Birdseye; the ?social inventors? such as George Eastman and Arthur D. Little.
This lavishly illustrated volume shows in pictures what Daniel J. Boorstin?s book told us in words; the National Portrait Gallery has created a browser?s paradise for anyone curious about our past and the people who made our fortune.« less