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The distinguished Professor of American history and the twelfth Librarian of Congress Dr Daniel J Boorstin gives his third Reith lecture from his series entitled 'America and the World Experience'.

After describing the founding fathers' journey to America in his previous lecture, Dr Boorstin explores how the spatial distance from Britain aided the successful colonisation of America, in this lecture entitled 'The Therapy of Distance'.

He explains that this geographic space allowed the American population to acquire independence from British cultural institutions and historic values. Following the history of the first travellers to America he explains how the voyage over the sea into an unknown territory allowed the creation of a new society with new rules.