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	The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Boorstin was best known as a former Librarian of Congress and the author of two best-selling trilogies, one about early America (The Americans, 1958, 1965, 1973), and one about Western science, art, and philosophy (The Discoverers, 1983; The Creators, 1992; and The Seekers, 1998).
		Boorstin refused, but promised to write only on his own time, and during his twelve years as Librarian of Congress he continued to write on weekends, in the evenings, and on nearly every weekday from 4 a.m.
		Boorstin opened the library’s reading rooms and collections to all, and during his term the library began to host public events and act as a center of intellectual activity in Washington.
	www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/5/soa/boorstin.htm (1002 words)

	Edward J. Dodson / Daniel J. Boorstin's The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
		Boorstin is, however, equally concerned that his contemporaries have traveled the same road and have selectively taken from the Jeffersonians to forge a philosophy out of context, an opportunistic agenda built without a foundation of principle.
		Boorstin takes us a long way toward understanding why it was that even the best and the brightest eighteenth-century minds held deeply entrenched and conservative beliefs about the origin and nature of man and how this affected the fundamental relations of man with nature, man with man, and of man and the state.
		In Boorstin's eyes as well, the state had assumed itself equal to the Creator assumed itself to be beyond the realm of natural law, and was well along the road toward a tyranny of the professional bureaucrat and terminal politician.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /dodson_boorstin_on_jefferson.html (2354 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004)
		Joseph Boorstin, a distinguished historian who served as the Librarian of Congress for more than a decade, was born in Atlanta on October 1, 1914, to Dora Olsan and Samuel Aaron Boorstin, Russian-Jewish immigrants.
		Boorstin attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of fifteen and graduated with the highest honors.
		Boorstin died in Washington, D.C., at the age of eighty-nine on February 28, 2004, survived by his wife, Ruth Frankel Boorstin, and three children.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3041 (796 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| higher news \| Obituary: Daniel Boorstin
		The American Daniel Boorstin, who has died aged 89, was a powerful and original social historian and critic, and the first to examine, often with distaste, many aspects of modern culture, including the "image", the "non-event" and the "celebrity", all concepts either invented, or first dissected, by him.
		Boorstin's first book to make a major impact, The Image, evolved from an essay he wrote in response to the televised debates between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the 1960 US presidential campaign.
		Boorstin apologised for his Communist party membership, and was one of those who agreed to name names in evidence to the House of Representatives unAmerican Activities Committee in 1953.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/news/story/0,9830,1159352,00.html (834 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		Daniel J. Boorstin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social historian who was the librarian of Congress for 12 years, died Saturday at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 89 and lived in Washington.
		Boorstin developed his social theories in a steady stream of books that were popular with many readers and critics, though not always with other historians.
		Boorstin grew up and attended schools in Tulsa, Okla., and majored in English history and literature at Harvard, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude.
	www.nationalbook.org /dboorstin_obit.html (1519 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Author Daniel Boorstin dies
		Boorstin served as Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, and he remained active for years in library affairs.
		Years before such concerns were common, Boorstin wrote that the combination of mass media and corporate power had transformed the "language of ideals" into the "language of images." The news was now dominated by public relations, he believed, by "pseudo-events" staged for the sake of being reported.
		The son of Russian Jews, Boorstin was born in Atlanta in 1914.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595045829,00.html (725 words)

	Daniel Boorstin and The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
		It was the historian Daniel Boorstin who may have been the first to suggest this idea in a book, published in 1961, titled The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America.
		America, according to Boorstin, was threatened by "the menace of unreality," which was infiltrating society, and replacing the authentic with the contrived.
		When Boorstin published The Image in 1961, it was early in the emergence of these trends.
	www.transparencynow.com /boor.htm (487 words)

	Daniel Boorstin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Daniel Boorstin, who died on Saturday [February 28, 2004] aged 89, was one of America's most renowned historians and, between 1975 and 1987, the Librarian of Congress in the world's largest library in Washington.
		The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Daniel Joseph Boorstin was born on Oct. 1, 1914, in Atlanta.
		Boorstin initiated programs to encourage reading, transforming the library from a somewhat forbidding institution to an international centre for learning, where members of the public were encouraged to make use of its 20 million books, 3.5 million maps and charts, presidential papers, photographs and films.
	www.fosterlearning.com /boorstindan.htm (1029 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Daniel Boorstin Dies at 89
		Daniel Joseph Boorstin, 89, the prizewinning and bestselling author and historian who had served as librarian of Congress and director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology, died of pneumonia yesterday at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
		Boorstin was author of two dozen books, which were translated into at least 30 languages.
		Since moving here, Boorstin had lived in Cleveland Park, in a large and spacious old house where almost all the walls were lined with built-in bookshelves, the way walls in other houses are lined with wallpaper, pictures or paint.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A15429-2004Feb28?language=printer (968 words)

	Blog of Death: Daniel Boorstin
		Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Daniel Joseph Boorstin died on Feb. 28 from pneumonia.
		Boorstin studied English history and literature at Harvard University, then traveled to England as a Rhodes scholar to attend the Balliol College at Oxford.
		Boorstin served as the director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology from 1969 to 1973.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000790.html (384 words)

	Daniel J. Boorstin Papers (Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Boorstin's early letters in the 1950s and 1960s to his wife and to his father, Samuel A. Boorstin, are particularly insightful, describing his experiences while teaching and lecturing in Europe and Asia.
		Correspondence and papers pertaining to Ruth Boorstin are interfiled throughout the collection, since she was closely involved in her husband's professional activities and served as editor and sometimes as coauthor of his publications.
		Boorstin's father was one of the attorneys who defended Frank, a Jew convicted of murdering a fourteen-year-old girl and later lynched.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/boorstin.html (7872 words)

	Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: Daniel Boorstin -- March 1, 2004
		Historian, author and frequent NewsHour guest Daniel Boorstin died last weekend in Washington, D.C. The NewsHour remembers Boorstin with a look at the interview he gave Jim Lehrer in 1987, when he retired as librarian of Congress.
		DANIEL BOORSTIN: The Librarian of Congress is supposed to help people learn, and not preach to them or even teach them.
		DANIEL BOORSTIN: Well, I think a Dutch historian once said that the point of studying history is not so that we can make a better decision tomorrow, it's so that we can be wiser forever.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jan-june04/boorstin_03-01.html (655 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Seekers: Livres en anglais: Daniel J. Boorstin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Renowned historian Daniel J. Boorstin completes the trilogy he began with The Discoverers and The Creators.
		Boorstin is generally stronger with material that is more recent and more secular, but this is an accomplished book and a worthy capstone to an outstanding three-volume effort.
		But what Boorstin does so well is bring together many ideas that fertilize and cross-fertilize the reader's imagination and curiosity.
	www.amazon.fr /Seekers-Daniel-J-Boorstin/dp/1842122282 (619 words)

	Daniel J. Boorstin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004), an American historian and writer, was the Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987.
		When President Gerald Ford nominated Boorstin to be Librarian of Congress, the nomination was supported by the Authors League of America but opposed by the American Library Association because Boorstin "was not a library administrator." The Senate confirmed the nomination without debate.
		Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Washington, D.C. Boorstin was of Jewish descent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Boorstin (438 words)

	[Deathwatch] Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 89
		Years before such concerns were common, Boorstin wrote that the combination of mass media and corporate power had transformed the "language of ideals" into the "language of images." News had become dominated by public relations, by "pseudo-events" staged for the sake of being reported.
		A self-described amateur in history, Boorstin was viewed with mixed feelings by professional historians.
		He was criticized for overlooking the more political moments of American history, from McCarthyism and Vietnam in the 1950s and '60s to multiculturalism in the '80s and '90s.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2004-March/000672.html (712 words)

	Daniel Boorstin, 1914-2004: Library of Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Daniel J. Boorstin, prize-winning author and Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, died Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Boorstin wrote more than 20 books, including a trilogy on the American experience and one on world intellectual history.
		Boorstin served as Librarian of Congress Emeritus from the time of his retirement in 1987 until his death.
		We will always be grateful for the friendship and support that he and Ruth so generously and warmly extended to us and to the amazing institution in which we have been privileged to succeed him.
	www.loc.gov /homepage/boorstin.html (941 words)

	Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Boorstin dies - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		Renowned for his books, Boorstin was appointed librarian of Congress in 1974 by President Ford and spent 12 years as director of the world’s largest library.
		The book was the third in Boorstin’s "The Americans" trilogy and followed "The Colonial Experience" and "The National Experience." All three sought to analyze the distinctive character of American institutions and culture.
		Boorstin was born in Atlanta, reared in Tulsa, Okla., and educated at Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4407481 (250 words)

	Daniel Boorstin
		Boorstin taught for years at the University of Chicago, and he has held many teaching positions abroad with stints at the University of Rome, the University of Geneva, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.
		Boorstin is one of only a few people to have won all three awards.
		Daniel Joseph Boorstin died of pneumonia on Feb. 28, 2004.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-100104-boorstin.html (382 words)

	History News Network
		Boorstin served as the 12th librarian of Congress, from 1975 to 1987, and he died in late February of pneumonia at age 89.
		One speaker after another painted Boorstin as an energetic and congenial genius who opened the library to a wider public and embraced computer technology and television as a way to spread the words.
		A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University in 1934, Boorstin was a Rhodes scholar.
	hnn.us /roundup/comments/4921.html (490 words)

	Amazon.fr : Hidden History: Livres en anglais: Daniel J. Boorstin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In his 70s, Boorstin recently retired as Librarian of Congress, a position that he had held since 1975 that capped his career as one of America's eminent historians.
		His title has deliberate meaning: Boorstin implies the historian's need to probe socio-political patterns from philosophical and uncliched angles.
		Boorstin's closing emphasis on our unacknowledged dominance by the "kingdom of the Machine" leads readers to hope for his further expansion of this theme.
	www.amazon.fr /Hidden-History-Daniel-J-Boorstin/dp/0679722238 (350 words)

	Amazon.com: The Discoverers: Books: Daniel J. Boorstin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences.
		In Boorstin's 1983 bestseller The Discoverers, the achievements of Galileo, Columbus, Darwin, Gutenberg and Freud emerged as upwellings of creativity and courage, ingenious acts of revolt against ingrained habit.
		Once Boorstin has laid bare the arduous path the human mind has had to trail-blaze to arrive at our modern ideas of time and space, he turns to the human body, showing that our modern knowledge of its constitution and function, too, is the result of hard-won, centuries-long, intellectual battles.
	www.amazon.com /Discoverers-Daniel-J-Boorstin/dp/0394726251 (2191 words)

	DANIEL BOORSTIN / 1914-2004 / Renowned historian, author dies at 89 / Former librarian of Congress also won Pulitzer in ...
		He won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for his 1973 book "The Democratic Experience," which was the third volume of his trilogy "The Americans." The first volume, "The Colonial Experience," won the Bancroft Award in 1959, and the second, "The National Experience," won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1966.
		In the course of a writing career that spanned more than 50 years, Boorstin also wrote about subjects ranging from the evolution of clocks to the first use of elevators and the impact of mail-order catalogues.
		In 1969, Boorstin came to Washington from Chicago as director of the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/29/MNG485AUCP1.DTL (866 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Daniel J. Boorstin
		Daniel J. Boorstin is also the author of The Americans, a trilogy that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.
		Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.
		In this provocative new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel J. Boorstin explores the essential "hidden history" of the American experience that is overlooked by most historians.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=2789 (609 words)

	Daniel J. Boorstin — www.greenwood.com
		Endorsement From Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Daniel Boorstin is one of the most challenging and original of American historians, and this comprehensive annotated bibliography is a demonstration of his range and influence.
		The Catholic University of America: The Boorstin Bibliography brings together an amazing variety of sources, from popular magazines to court reports, reflecting the range and diversity of Daniel Boorstin's interests and audience.
		Entries are selectively annotated, in many instances using direct quotes from Boorstin, to give the reader a snapshot understanding of the works cited.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR0324.aspx (356 words)

	eBooks - The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin - eReader.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Boorstin begins his book with an exploration of a distinctively American type, the "go-getter." The Western states, largely unexplored and unmapped, comprised a territory rich in opportunities for those willing to go find them, or, even better, to go make them.
		Boorstin provides fascinating looks into the formation of American society through the lens of these found and made opportunities.
		As he did most interestingly in his other works, Boorstin describes the American experience, and the formation of the American character through the technology and the systems that spring up to meet certain needs and that become closely woven into the fabric of American life.
	www.ereader.com /product/detail/7017 (539 words)

	USATODAY.com - Social critic, historian Daniel Boorstin dies at 89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Social critic, historian Daniel Boorstin dies at 89
		But the family soon moved to Tulsa, then a frontier town gushing both with oil and with what Boorstin called the "booster" spirit.
		In 1969, he became director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology (now the Museum of American History) and six years later he was nominated by President Ford as Librarian of Congress.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-02-29-boorstin_x.htm (799 words)

	Averett University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Daniel J. Boorstin, Pulitzer Prize winning historian; Librarian of Congress, 1975-1987.
		The Americans: the democratic experience [by] Daniel J. Boorstin.
		The Americans: the national experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin.
	www.averett.edu /library/exhibits/0404_Boorstin.html (128 words)

	The Seekers by Daniel J. Boorstin : Booksamillion.com (0375704752, Paperback)
		Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning.
		And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences.
		In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375704752 (178 words)

	The Americans: National Experience - Daniel Boorstin - Microsoft Reader eBook
		Boorstin is interested in the role geography and space play in the formation of the national character.
		He is particularly interested in how the realities of place spur the creation of new technologies and how those technologies, in turn, influence the values, customs and habits of the individuals making use of them.
		Boorstin examines such phenomena as the Balloon Frame House, the frontier hotel, the railway car and the local newspaper.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/99334-ebook.htm (885 words)

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