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Angela Michele Leonard, Ph.D.
This bibliography brings together works by and about Boorstin, showing the volume, range, and importance of his contribution to the study of American history. With more than 1,300 entries, the…
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Daniel J Boorstin
Chronicles the human search for meaning and purpose as revealed through the lives and words of Moses, Plato, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Marx, Emerson, Einstein, and other great thinkers.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Examines the human quest for knowledge and discoveries as it discusses such men as Galileo, Adam Smith, Columbus, Marx, Napoleon, Magellan, Faraday, Freud, Marco Polo, and St. Augustine.
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Chronicles the history of the arts and includes biographies of important figures ranging from Homer to Stravinsky incorporated into a mosaic of creativity that spans three thousand years.
Discusses news gathering, celebrity, travel, prestige, and the American dream.
This second volume in The Americans trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and…
Focuses on the American Colonial experience as a disproving ground for European ideas of utopia and probes the nature of the new civilization which emerged.
Explores changes in the national character since the Civil War paying particular attention to the social costs of progress. Bibliogs.
How much of our political tradition can be absorbed and used by other peoples? Daniel Boorstin’s answer to this question has been chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York…
By analysing writings of ‘the Jeffersonian Circle,’ Boorstin explores concepts of God, nature, equality, toleration, education and government in order to illuminate their underlying world view.
Referred to as the bible of American lawyers, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared…
Daniel J Boorstin,Ruth Frankel Boorstin
A collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers explores the themes of discovery, paradox, and surprise in history, from ancient times to the technologically advanced world…
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man’s essential questions: Who are we? and Why…
Isabella L. Bird,Daniel J. Boorstin
* ‘This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey’ Dervla Murphy, THE IRISH TIMES
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of pseudo-events-events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported-and the…
Matthew Spalding,Patrick J. Garrity
This book is a major contribution to Washington scholarship.-Washington Times
Alexis de Tocqueville
Shares impressions of America’s politics and culture.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Edward Gibbon
Recounts the events that led to the fall of the Roman Empire, from the second century A.D. to the fifteenth century A.D.
