[The Americans 03] • The Democratic Experience by Boorstin, Daniel Joseph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Changes BOOK ONE EVERYWHERE COMMUNITIES 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

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

Statistical Communities

A Numerical Science of Community: The Rise of the Average Man Communities of Risk Statistical Expectations: What’s Your Size? 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

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 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

Mass-Producing the Moment

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 MIRACULOUS 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

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 Search for Novelty

Mission and Momentum

Prologue to Foreign Aid Samaritan Diplomacy Not Whether but When: The New Momentum

Epilogue: Unknown Coasts Acknowledgments Bibliographical Notes