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Explores problems of community and the search for a national identity. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

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THE SEA WAS a path direct from Old to New England, from Babylon to Zion.

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This is book 2 of 3 in The Americans. (standard series)

Preceded by The Colonial Experience, and followed by The Democratic Experience.

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  1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Author)

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