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EXPERIENCE
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An Interpretation of the History
and Civilization of the American People
by HENRY BAMFORD PARKES
by HENRY BAMFORD PARKES
"Here is a book which, although it disclaims any pretensions as
a history, actually distills the essentials of American history with
a vigorous conciseness that most of the pure narrators might
envy.. In these pages the wit, imagination, grasp, and insight
of a talented and richly informed mind play over the whole range
of American history and frequently hit off in a phrase points that
have not come clear from whole chapters in other books....This
book tanks among the most trenchant and most important of past
or present interpretations of the American people, their ideals,
and their character."
-American Historical Review
"Professor Parkes has woven together economic history and analy-
sis of American literature, generalized summaries of trends and
detailed discussions of particularly significant spokesmen, into a
pattern that is at the same time clear and complex." His book
"accomplishes the difficult feat of being both intelligible to the
layman and rewarding for the professional."
-The Saturday Review
Vintage
.It is shrewd, penetrating and, except to professional patriots,
highly anusing "
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THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
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