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Original Title:	The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914
ISBN:	0582127114 (ISBN13: 9780582127111)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n50-16780

The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914

J.C. Furnas

Hardcover | Pages: 1015 pages

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I had never heard of the author when I found "The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914" tucked away on a bookshelf at the Goodwill in Florence, Oregon. This book contains 920 thin pages covered in small print. It was published in 1969. When I finished reading it, I was tempted to start back at the beginning and read it again. Furnas, who was born in 1906, writes sentences so tart and exquisitely elaborate that his writing is somehow reminiscent of Emily Post, though etiquette is but one of thousands of topics he revisits in this comprehensive and fascinating cultural history of the United States. To whit:

Furnas on early 20th C. journalism:

"Ambrose Bierce, a longtime fixture in Hearst's papers who combined high writing skill with the disposition of a molting rattlesnake, presently contributed to Hearst's current war on President McKinley some grimly tasteless verses..."

Furnas on 19th C. fashion:

"Changes in women's fashion were not so benign...The bizarre successor of the hoop was the bustle--a horsehair pad or wire frame tied on behind under the dress to make a lady's rear look like the rear view of a horse and rider. This not only gave the illusion of a really monstrous streatopygia but also prevented sitting comfortably on anything but a stool. In that era of jigsawed verandas and rococo hatstands, fashionable gowns were naturally more elaborate than they have ever been before or since--amazing complexes of overskirts, capes, flounces, trains, ruchings, jabots, cravats, frogs, pointless buttons, lace insertions--often in dark, heavy-rich materials dragging in the dirt unless the wearer confined herself to house and carriage."

On the history of refrigeration:
"But every plus implies a minus somewhere. Mechanical refrigeration also greatly heightened the breweries' capacity to age beer. Ensuing overproduction led to the consolidation of breweries into savagely competing giant concerns. Desperate for outlets, they set up chains of captive saloons owned outright or controlled by mortgages on building or fixtures and forced to sell only Brand X beer. Too many saloons per capita in large cities meant lowering what standards of decent operation there were and an increasingly blackened reputation for the enemies of the saloon to exploit. That had much to do with the success of the Anti-Saloon League's strategy of "The Saloon Must Go," which, embarked on in the late 1890s, led to the Eighteenth Amendment."


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Title	:	The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914
Author	:	J.C. Furnas
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1015 pages
Published	:	1969 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (NY)
Categories	:	History. North American Hi.... American History. Nonfiction. Literature. American

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Good, but not quite as good as the third volume of this trilogy sketching the social history of the United States of America, that being his Stormy Weather, read previously. The reasons may include (1) that this volume covers centuries, while the second and third cover less than two decades each; (2) that the third volume, covering the thirties, represents a period within the author's memory, while this, ending in 1914, was more distant.Still, it was a good read for many of the same reasons that

I had never heard of the author when I found "The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914" tucked away on a bookshelf at the Goodwill in Florence, Oregon. This book contains 920 thin pages covered in small print. It was published in 1969. When I finished reading it, I was tempted to start back at the beginning and read it again. Furnas, who was born in 1906, writes sentences so tart and exquisitely elaborate that his writing is somehow reminiscent of Emily Post, though



Full name: Joseph Chamberlain Furnas.I had never heard of the author when I found "The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914" tucked away on a bookshelf at the Goodwill in Florence, Oregon. This book contains 920 thin pages covered in small print. It was published in 1969. When I finished reading it, I was tempted to start back at the beginning and read it again. Furnas, who was born in 1906, writes sentences so tart and exquisitely elaborate that his writing is somehow reminiscent of Emily Post, though