Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394710112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394710112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394710118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
The Americans
Author: Daniel Joseph BoorstinPublisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Historical survey of America's self-discovery in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War.
The Americans: The National Experience
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
The Americans
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758150400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Seekers
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375704752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" 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. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. 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.
The Image
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679741801
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
The Discoverers
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773558
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
The Creators
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307817210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller. Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention. In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great architecture and philosophy) is created, but where it comes from and how it has shaped and mirrored societies from Vedic India to the twentieth-century United States.
Closing of the American Mind
Author: Allan BloomPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.