Boorstin

Bruno, Leonard C. Landmarks of science from the collections of the Library of Congress foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. Washington (DC) Library of Congress, 1987 reprint, New York Facts on File, 1989. xi, 351 p. ISBN 0816021376... 

Albert Beveridge, March of the Flag, in Daniel J. Boorstin, ed., An American Primer (New York Mentor, 1966), p. 647 Richard Welch, Jr., Response to Imperialism The United States and the Philippine-American War (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1979), p. 101. 

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers A History of Man s Search to Know His World and Himself. NewYork Vintage Books, 1985. 

Daniel Boorstin, The Americans The Colonial Experience. New Abrk Random... 

For the modem vkual celebrity as specifically representing the human pseudo event, see Boorstin, The Image, 4d 76, 154—61 ( Star ). For a novel approach to post-modern celebrities, see Moffitt, Picturing Extraterrestrials. 

For evolutionary history of these cultural-psychological images, see Boorstin,... 

Boorstin, D. ]. The Americans The Democratic Experience. New York Vintage, 1974---------. The Discoverers. New York Vintage, 1983. 

In his 1961 book, The Image,2 Daniel J. Boorstin, the former Librarian of Congress, lamented that citizens were losing their skepticism and were too willing to accept what they were told by the media, which he called news makers. The nomenclature is important. At some time in the past, news makers were the people who made discoveries and decisions, built dams and businesses,... 

D. J. Boorstin, TheImage A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961 reprint, New York Vintage Books, 1992). 

Johnson, C.A. The Purposes and Limitations of a Pharmacopeia. International Symposium on the Compendia and Industry, Montreal, 1985 Pharmazeut. Ind., 1986 48, 760. Grady, L.T. J. A. Pharm. Assoc. 1976, 16, 603, NS. Boorstin, DanielJ. The Americans—The Democratic Experience Chap. 22 Random House New York, 1973. Descartes, R. Discourse on the Method L. J. Lafleur transl 1637. 

Historian Daniel Boorstin made the distinction between the hero and the celebrity clearly. The hero was distinguished by his achievement the celebrity by his image or trademark, he wrote. The hero created himself the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man the celebrity is a big name. Too often, the media manufactures celebrities and packages them as heroes. We learn little of their contributions to society and more than we need to about their fashions or love affairs. That is not to say some celebrities are not heroes. In fact, more than a few athletes, actors, and artists have broken barriers and dedicated themselves to important humanitarian causes. Unfortunately, those actions command less attention than the latest scandal. 

At a special meeting of the American Philosophical Society held on July 14, 1797, Rush read a paper entitled Observations intended to favour a supposition that the black Color (as it is called) of the Negroes is derived from the LEPROSY. In this paper. Rush reasoned, as Daniel Boorstin summarizes it for us. 

Edmund S. Morgan (Ed.), Mary Easty, Petition of an Accused Witch, 1692, in Daniel Boorstin (Ed.), An American Primer, pp. 26-30 p. 28. 

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson, pp. 148-149. 

D.J, Boorstin, The Seekers The Story of Man s Continuing Quest to Understand His World. Random House, New York, 1998, p. 22. 

In this smdy, observers recorded how their expectations of political enthusiasm and wild mass involvement were completely unfulfilled. Through close-ups and a particular style of commentary ( the most enthusiastic crowd ever in our city. .. you can feel the tenseness in the air. .. you can hear the crowd roar ) television structured the whole event to convey emotions nonex istent to the participants. This effect explains why many spectators at the Mods and Rockers events found them a slight let-down after the mass media publicity. As Boorstin remarks in discussing... 

Once the subject of the story is fixed, its subsequent shape is determined by certain recurrent processes of news manufacture. Halloran et ol. refer to the development of an inferential structure this is not intentional bias nor simple selection by expectation, but ...a process of simplification and interpretation which structures the meaning given to the story around its original news value The conceptual framework they use to locate this process - and one that is equally applicable to the Mods and Rockers - is Boorstin s notion of the event as news. That is to say, the question of is it news becomes as important as is it real The argument simply is that ... 

On civic boosterism in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, see III, Boorstin, 1965, 113-168. Sinclair Lewis Babbitt presents a satirical view of an enterprising booster. The shift from island communities to a national urban culture in the early twentieth century, and the associated importance of professional groups in preserving a sense of community (see III, Wiebe, 1967), suggest the concept of chemical boosterism discussed below. 

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