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    Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American...
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    Her mother, Sharon Boorstin, is an author. Julia Boorstin's late grandfather was the Pulitzer-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004). Her grandmother...
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  • Church of Pawhuska), various other churches, companies, the estate of Daniel J. Boorstin, the Frank Phillips Foundation, and the Drummond family. Some of these...
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  • in America is a 1962 book by the political historian Daniel J. Boorstin. In his book, Boorstin argues that Americans have a false "image" of what "news"...
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  • opinions of the best 100 novels. The board of review consisted of Daniel J. Boorstin, A. S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund...
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  • Americans: The Democratic Experience, a 1973 American history book by Daniel J. Boorstin The Americans (2017), a short story in The Refugees America (disambiguation)...
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    Putnam (1899–1939) MacLeish (1939–44) Evans (1945–53) Mumford (1954–74) Boorstin (1975–87) Billington (1987–2015) Mao* (2015–16) Hayden (2016–) │ 1802 │...
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  • author David Bodanis, author Liz Bonnin, biochemist and TV presenter Daniel J. Boorstin, author and Librarian of Congress Sir David Brewster, Scottish scientist...
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  • Pseudo-events in America (1961), by historian and social theorist Daniel J. Boorstin. In it, he defined the celebrity as "a person who is known for his...
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    The term "pseudo-event" was coined by the theorist and historian Daniel J. Boorstin in his 1961 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America: “The...
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  • US Library of Congress Center for the Book was founded in 1977 by Daniel J. Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, to promote literacy, libraries, and reading...
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  • unobtainable ideal, or it may lead to a lack of unimpaired role models. Daniel J. Boorstin cautions against confusing celebrity worship with hero worship, "we...
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  • Pearl S. Buck, Quentin Reynolds, MacKinlay Kantor, Shirley Jackson, Daniel J. Boorstin, and many others. A blurb printed on the jacket of later entries in...
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  • The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes...
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  • of Discovery in American History," in American Civilization, ed. Daniel J. Boorstin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. Jeal, Tim. Stanley: The Impossible Life...
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    from the original on September 2, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2012. "Boorstin, Daniel J.". Encyclopaedia Judaica. January 1, 2007. Archived from the original...
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    [citation needed] Celâl Şengör Turkish Geologist[citation needed] Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), U.S. historian, professor, attorney, writer, U.S. Librarian...
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  • of American popular historians with academic affiliations include Daniel J. Boorstin, Stephen E. Ambrose, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Pauline Maier. Recent...
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    leaf was then hung on the figure using a pair of hooks. Historian Daniel J. Boorstin said that: The age of the rising middle class in Victorian England...
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  • Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer (d. 1996) October 1 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004) October...
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    film, Eureka!, made by Greg MacGillivray and Jon Boorstin, based on The Discoverers, by Daniel J. Boorstin was presented. The first IMAX film to use a light-weight...
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  • Oklahoma Secretary of Health and state senator Tom Adelson; historian Daniel J. Boorstin; Oklahoma State Treasurer Robert Butkin; Oklahoma City School Board...
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    in 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed historian Daniel J. Boorstin as a librarian. Boorstin's first challenge was to manage the relocation of some...
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  • www.harvard.edu. "Daniel J. Boorstin Papers". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on October 15, 2010. "Daniel J. Boorstin papers, 1882-1995...
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    of Jewish Americans. Cyrus Adler Herbert Aptheker Bernard Bailyn Daniel J. Boorstin Norman Cantor Ariel Durant Stanley Elkins Richard Ettinghausen, art...
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  • cookbook author William Bernhardt, mystery/suspense fiction author Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004), historian and writer; former Librarian of Congress Cleora...
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  • Frazier, 1933, journalist Nathan Pusey, 1934, president of Harvard Daniel J. Boorstin, 1934, Rhodes Scholar, historian, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
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    Ancient to Modern Optics, University of Chicago Press - 2014, page 387 Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - 2011, page 327...
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  • Internet. Also of interest is the work of American historian and critic Daniel J. Boorstin in his book The Discoverers, in which he provides a historical perspective...
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    1964) John Canfield Ewers (1964–1965) Robert P. Multhauf (1966–1968) Daniel J. Boorstin (1968–1973) Brooke Hindle (1974–1978) Claudia Brush Kidwell (1979):...
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