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Daniel Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin is an American historian from the University of Chicago who has written on many topics in US and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He is credited with establishing the Book Center at the Library of Congress. Refusing his young Communist Party membership as a Harvard student, Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent figure in the history of consensus. He argued in The Genius of American Politics that ideology, propaganda, and political theory were alien to America. His works are often linked to historians such as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter as proponents of the "consensus school," emphasizing the unity of the American people and ignoring impulses, class and the society. Boorstin especially praises the inventors and entrepreneurs at the heart of American success.
BornDaniel Joseph Boorstin, October 1, 1914, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DiedFebruary 28, 2004, Washington, D.C.
Alma materHarvard College, Balliol College, Oxford, Yale Law School
PresidentGerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
Preceded byLawrence Quincy Mumford
Succeeded byJames Billington

About Daniel Boorstin

Historian Daniel Boorstin was born in Georgia, United States on October 1, 1914. He dies at the age of 89, on February 28, 2004.

He is well known for his books The Americans trilogy and The Discoverers, all of which focused on the importance of individuals in bringing about major historical events. In 1974, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Daniel Boorstin before becoming famous

Daniel Boorstin was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1914 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger (兎).

He received a Rhodes Scholarship after graduating from Harvard and later acquired a law degree from Yale. He then spent nearly three decades as a professor at the University of Chicago.

Achievement of Daniel Boorstin

The Mysterious Science of the Law (1941), The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948), and The Genius of American Politics (1951) are among his early publications (1953).

Daniel Boorstin's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His father was a well-known Jewish lawyer who successfully defended Activist Leo Frank in a high-profile court case. Paul Boorstin, his son, became a documentary filmmaker.

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He was nominated for the position of Librarian of Congress by President US President Gerald R. Ford.

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