Daniel J. Boorstin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.
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- The image : a guide to pseudo-events in America (1992) (2223)
- The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1974) (400)
- The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream (1963) (299)
- The Americans : The National Experience (1965) (199)
- The Americans: The Colonial Experience (1958) (183)
- The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (1983) (175)
- The image : or, What happened to the American dream (1962) (156)
- The lost world of Thomas Jefferson (1950) (70)
- A history of the United States (1981) (55)
- The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992) (54)
- The national experience (1969) (41)
- Republic of Technology: Reflections on Our Future Community (1978) (41)
- The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries (1942) (36)
- The mysterious science of the law (1941) (32)
- Cleopatra's nose : essays on the unexpected (1995) (21)
- The hidden order : Tokyo through the twentieth century (1989) (20)
- The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World (1998) (19)
- Empire of the czar : a journey through eternal Russia (1989) (17)
- Democracy and its Discontents. Reflections on Everyday America (1974) (15)
- THE GREAT ELECTRONIC DICTATOR (1978) (15)
- The sociology of the absurd (1970) (14)
- The decline of radicalism : reflections on America today (1969) (13)
- A nation of readers (1982) (12)
- The colonial experience (1965) (12)
- An American Primer (1966) (11)
- Books in Our Future. (1984) (11)
- Tradition and Method in Legal History (1941) (11)
- Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (1944) (10)
- The exploring spirit: America and the world, then and now (1977) (7)
- America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought (2012) (6)
- America and the image of Europe (1960) (6)
- The Americans: The National Experience@@@The Life of the Mind in America from the Revolution to the Civil War: Books One Through Three (1966) (5)
- Democracy and its discontents (1975) (5)
- This beats working for a living : the dark secrets of a college professor (1973) (5)
- THE HUMANE STUDY OF LAW (1948) (5)
- Gresham's Law: Knowledge or Information? The Center for the Book Viewpoint Series No. 3. (1979) (5)
- The republic of letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on books, reading, and libraries, 1975-1987 (1989) (5)
- Library: The Drama Within (1996) (5)
- Books in our future : a report from the Librarian of Congress to the Congress (1984) (5)
- The Burlington Court Book: A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709 (1944) (5)
- The changing American legal system : some selected phases (1941) (4)
- The Elusiveness of Mr. Justice Holmes (1941) (3)
- The Exploring Spirit (1976) (3)
- Cleopatra's Nose (1994) (3)
- The Library of Congress, its architecture and decoration (1982) (3)
- Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 : a biography (1953) (3)
- The Image: The Lost World of Daniel Boorstin@@@The Image. (1991) (3)
- The lost world of Thomas Jefferson : with a new preface (1981) (2)
- The Indivisible World. Libraries and the Myth of Cultural Exchange. The Center for the Book Viewpoint Series No. 15. (1985) (2)
- The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976 (1976) (2)
- American civilization; a portrait from the twentieth century (1972) (1)
- The sociology of the absurd, or, The application of Professor X (1970) (1)
- The Autonomy of Scholarship (1948) (1)
- Civilizations Out of Sync ‐ Winter 2002 (2008) (1)
- The landmark history of the American people (1987) (0)
- The Americans: The Colonial Experiment (1959) (0)
- Daniel J. Boorstin, Graduate Commencement Speaker, 1974 (1974) (0)
- Books Received (1986) (0)
- Book Review: The Burr Conspiracy, by Thomas Perkins Abernethy. (1955) (0)
- Visiting our past : America's historylands (1977) (0)
- The Landmark History of the American People: From Plymouth to Appomattox (1987) (0)
- Portraits from The Americans, the democratic experience : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery based on Daniel J. Boorstin's Pulitzer Prize winning book (1975) (0)
- Packaging the past: The Boorstin Experience@@@The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1976) (0)
- The Daniel J. Boorstin reader (1995) (0)
- A History of the United States: A Conservative Textbook for Conservative Times (1981) (0)
- The Ohio State University Commencement Address by Daniel J. Boorstin, Summer 1973 (1973) (0)
- Unit II. REFORMERS AND TRANSCENDENTALISTS (1986) (0)
- Apostles of Novelty (2008) (0)
- The Landmark History of the American People from Appomattox to the Moon (1970) (0)
- Delaware Cases, 1792-1830 (1944) (0)
- Book Reviews (1964) (0)
- Introduction (1976) (0)
- Perspectives : readings on American history in the 20th century (1992) (0)
- Consensus Pyrotechnics@@@The Americans: The Democratic Experience. (1974) (0)
- Electrical characterization and investigation of the piezoresistive e ff ect of PEDOT : PSS thin films (2005) (0)
- A History of American Philosophy. Herbert W. SchneiderAmerican Philosophic Addresses, 1700-1900. Joseph L. Blau (1947) (0)
- 1974 Award. About the Democratic Experience in the United States (1993) (0)
- Book of the Quarter (1993) (0)
- Bibliography (1935) (0)
- The World Encompassed. Remarks at a Dinner in the Great Hall in Celebration of the Treasures of the Library of Congress (Washington, DC, March 19, 1981). The Center for the Book Viewpoint Series No. 6. (1981) (0)
- Natural gas shortage. [Review] (1975) (0)
- Record Unit 334 Subject Files, circa 1945-1987 and related records, 1920-1930 (0)
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