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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 contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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“Excellent…It is the book to end all books about ‘The American Image’—what it is, who projects it, what effect it has at home or abroad.”
— Observer
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“A book that everyone in America should read every few years.”
— Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author -
“A very informative and entertaining and chastising book.”
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“An engrossing book—sensitive, thoughtful, damning, dead on target, and in most respects unanswerable.”
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“Tells us how to see and listen, and how to think about what we see and hear.”
— George F. Will, author of Men at Work
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About Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), educated at Harvard, Yale, and Oxford, was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was a Librarian of Congress Emeritus, having directed the US national library from 1979 to 1987, and helped create the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. He had previously been director of the National Museum for History and Technology and of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
About Timothy Danko
Timothy Danko is an audiobook narrator whose work has included The Quest of the Thirteen and The Parting.