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Daniel J. Boorstin

An American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.

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Born October 1, 1914
Died February 28, 2004

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  • Cover of: The Americans.

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  • Cover of: The discoverers

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  • Cover of: The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

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  • Cover of: The image: or, What happened to the American dream.

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  • Cover of: An American primer

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  • Cover of: The lost world of Thomas Jefferson: with a new preface

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  • Cover of: The Americans, the democratic experience

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  • Cover of: The genius of American politics

    First published in 1953 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: A history of the United States

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  • Cover of: The Americans, the colonial experience.

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  • Cover of: The Americans, the national experience

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  • Cover of: Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

    First published in 1994 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: The seekers: the story of man's continuing quest to understand his world

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  • Cover of: Hidden history

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  • Cover of: Democracy and its discontents: reflections on everyday America

    First published in 1971 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The mysterious science of the law: an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science

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  • Cover of: America and the image of Europe: reflections on American thought.

    First published in 1960 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The republic of technology: reflections on our future community

    First published in 1978 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14)

    First published in 1960 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Decline of Radicalism

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Born October 1, 1914
Died February 28, 2004

Subjects

History, Civilization, American National characteristics, Discoveries in geography, Science, Library of Congress, National characteristics, American, Books and reading, Civilisation, United States, Civilization, history, Histoire, Law, Economic conditions, Intellectual life, Popular culture, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Correspondence, Faculty, Historiography, Japan-United States Friendship Commission, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution

Places

United States, EE. UU, Great Britain, USA, États-Unis, America, California, Delaware, Foreign countries, Nevada, Portugal

People

Abe Fortas, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1912-1989), C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999), Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003), David Riesman (1909-2002), Dumas Malone (1892-1986), Edmund Morris, Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), F. O. Matthiessen (1902-1950), Helen Hayes (1900-1993), Henry Kissinger (1923-), Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998), Herman Wouk (1915-), Howard H. Baker (1925-), Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978), Jacques Barzun (1907-), John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), Lewis F. Powell (1907-1998), Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), Marcus Cunliffe, Maurice English, Peter C. Marzio, Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970), Ronald Reagan

Time

1783-1865, 1945-, 20th century, To 1783, 1865-, 1788-1865, 1860-1960, 1865-1918, 18th century, 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Jusqu'à 1783, Period of discoveries,1385-1580

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  • Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph) Boorstin
  • Daniel Boorstin
  • Daniel Joseph Boorstin

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