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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 are we here?"
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“Impressive…Boorstinreminds us what intellectual history on the grand scale looks like.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Delivered with…skill, unalloyed admiration, and a keen eye for detail.”
— Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
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A 1998 New York Times Notable Book for Nonfiction
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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.