Boorstin, Daniel

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

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. 

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

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,... 

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. 

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