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BOORSTIN, Daniel was born on October 1, 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Son of late Samuel Boorstin and Dora Olsan.
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New views of what holds Americans together-- and of some of the things that pull us apart-- by one of the best-known historians, Daniel J. Boorstin, published in 1970.
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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 in 1765. For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime—Commentaries is at last fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise intellectual history of the time, illustrating all the elegance, social values, and internal contradictions of the Age of Reason.
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Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans. Volume I: The Democratic Experience Volume II: The National Experience Volume III: The Colonial Experience. Three Volumes (complete). New York, Vintage Books, 1973. 20.3cm x 12.8cm. XIV,717, V, 517,VII, 434 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Includes for Example: Book One, The Democratic Experience: Lawless Sheriffs and Honest Desperados/ Rounding up Rock Oil/ Exploiting the Federal Commodity, Divorce and Gambling/ Crime as a Service Institution/ Democracy of Clothing/ How Farmers Joined Consumption Communities/ Citifying the Country/ Freedom for Advertisers/ The Incorruptible Cashier/ The Rediscovery of Poverty/ Income Consciousness/ Statistic Morality/ An American Diaspora/ Politics for City Immigrants/ Time Becomes Fungible: Packaging the Unit of Work/ Endless Streams of Ownership/ New Penumbras of Property/ Packing to Packaging: The New Strategy of Desire/ Delcine of Grammar/ The Colloquial Conquers the Classroom/ From Oratory to Public Speaking/ The Exotic Becomes Commonplace/ The Social Inventor: Inventing for the Market/ Solutions in Search of Problems/ Book Two, The Nationalist Experience: New Englanders/ Organizing the American Factory/ Common-Law Way of thinking/ Community before Government/ Natural Law of Transient Communities, Claim Clubs and Priority Rule/ Vigilantism and Majority Rule/ The Businessmen as an American Institution/ The Booster Press/ Competitive Communities/ Southerners, White and Black/ How the Planter lost his versatility/ The Negroes' Churches/ How Southern Men became Honor-bound/ Metaphysical Politics/ Settlement before Discovery/ Goernment as a Service Institution/ American Ways of Talking/ An Ungoverned Vocabulary/ A Declamatory Literature/ Search for Symbols/ Heroes of Clowns? Comic Supermen from a Subliterature/ The Mythologizing of George Washington/ How Local Patriotism made National H..
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Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely ("the eternal mystery of the world," Einstein once said, "is its comprehensibility"). Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences. The approach is idiosyncratic, with Boorstin lingering over particular figures and accomplishments rather than rushing on to the next set of names and dates. It's also primarily Western, although Boorstin does ask (and answer) several interesting questions: Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe and America? Why didn't the Arabs circumnavigate the planet? His thesis about discovery ultimately turns on what he calls "illusions of knowledge." If we think we know something, then we face an obstacle to innovation. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.
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Hardcover Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; Volume 2 edition (December 12, 1987) Language: English ISBN-10: 0394991192 ISBN-13: 978-0394991191 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
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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 for representation in American Panorama as one of the 350 books, old and new, most descriptive of life in the United States. He describes the uniqueness of American thought and explains, after a close look at the American past, why we have not produced and are not likely to produce grand political theories or successful propaganda. He also suggests what our attitudes must be toward ourselves and other countries if we are to preserve our institutions and help others to improve theirs. ". . . a fresh and, on the whole, valid interpretation of American political life."—Reinhold Niebuhr, New Leader
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Boorstin has spent a lifetime exploring facets of the American experience. This new addition to the Modern Library is an omnibus collection drawn from his many books, including the monumental trilogy The Americans.
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BOORSTIN, Daniel was born on October 1, 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Son of late Samuel Boorstin and Dora Olsan.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1934; Bachelor with honors, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1936; Bachelor of Civil Law with honors, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1937; postgraduate, Inner Temple, London, 1934-1937; Doctor of Juridical Science, Yale University, 1940; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Cambridge U., 1967; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University, 1993; other honorary degrees.
Instructor, tutor history and literature, Harvard and Radcliffe College, 1938-1942;
lecturer legal history, Harvard Law School, 1939-1942;
assistant professor of history, Swarthmore College, 1942-1944;
from assistant professor to professor American history, University of Chicago, 1944-1964;
Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service professor, University of Chicago, 1964-1969;
Walgreen lecturer, American institutions, 1952;
director, National Museum History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1969-1973;
senior historian, National Museum History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1973-1975;
library of Congress, Library. of Congress, 1975-1987;
library of Congress emeritus, Library. of Congress, since 1987. Fulbright visiting lecturer American history U. Rome, Italy, 1950-1951, Kyoto U., Japan, 1957. Consultant Social Science Research Center, U. P.R., 1955.
Lectr.for unites states department State in, Turkey, Iran, Nepal, India, Ceylon, 1959-1960, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, 1968, India, Pakistan, Iceland, 1974, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Egypt, 1975. 1st incumbent of chair American history U. Paris, 1961-1962. Pitt professor American history and institutions U. Cambridge, 1964-1965.
Shelby and Kathryn Cullom Davis lecturer Graduate Institute International Studies, Geneva, 1973-1974. Senior fellow Huntington Library, 1969. Member Commision on Critical Choices for Americans, 1973-1977, Department State Indo-American Joint Subcommn.
Edition and Culture, 1974-1981, Japan-United States Friendship Commission, 1978-1984. Member American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Senior attorney Office Lend Lease Administrator, Department Justice, Washington.
Fellow Trinity College, 1964-1965. Member task force on exploration National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1989.
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Trustee Colonial Williamsburg, Kennedy Center, Cafaritz Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center, Thomas Gilcrease Museum. Member board visitors United States Air Force Academy, 1968—1970. Fellow: Royal History Society (correspondent), American Geography Society (honorary).
Member: Colonial Society Massachusetts, Organization American Historians, American Studies Association (president 1969-1971), American Antiquarian Society, American Philosophical Society (Thomas Jefferson medal 1999), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Elizabethan Club (Yale University chapter), National Press Club, International House Japan, Cosmos Club, Phi Beta Kappa (Distinguished Service to Humanities award 1988).
Married Ruth Carolyn Frankel, April 9, 1941. Children: Paul Terry, Jonathan, David West.