TY - BOOK AU - Banks, Russell, TI - Dreaming up America SN - 9781583228913 AV - E 169.1 .B226 2009 PY - 2009///, c2008 CY - New York PB - Seven Stories Press KW - National characteristics, American N2 - Drawing on politics, literature, film, and a deep knowledge of American history, Banks traces the first colonists' differing motives, their points of intersection through the centuries, and the inevitable influence of the existing cultures they encountered or enslaved. www.alibris.com ER -