An edition of Cleopatra's Nose
(1994)
Cleopatra's nose
essays on the unexpected
1st trade ed.
by Daniel J. Boorstin
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Table of Contents
I. Realms of discovery
1. The age of negative discovery
2. The cultures of pride and awe
3. An odd couple: discoverers and inventors
II. Trials of conscience
4. The writer as conscience of the world
5. Our conscience-wracked nation
III. New-world opportunities
6. Printing and the Constitution
7. Roles of the president's house
8. The making of a capitol
9. An un-American capital
IV. The cautionary science
10. Tocqueville's America
11. Custine's Russia
V. The fourth kingdom
12. Darwinian expectations
13. Statistical expectations
14. Artificial selection
15. The great separation
VI. A personal postscript
16. My father, lawyer Sam Boorstin
17. Land of the unexpected
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