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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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