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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, by Perry Miller. Harcourt, $7.50

The Americans: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Random House, $8.95 Perry Miller’s great history will never now be finished; what we have are two and a half volumes out of a projected nine-volume study of the American mind between the Revolution and the Civil War. Daniel Boorstin’s book covers the same period; it is the sequel to his The Americans: The Colonial Experience, winner of the Bancroft prize for 1959.

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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, by Perry Miller. Harcourt, $7.50

The Americans: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Random House, $8.95 Perry Miller’s great history will never now be finished; what we have are two and a half volumes out of a projected nine-volume study of the American mind between the Revolution and the Civil War. Daniel Boorstin’s book covers the same period; it is the sequel to his The Americans: The Colonial Experience, winner of the Bancroft prize for 1959.