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Daniel J. Boorstin

October 1, 1914–February 28, 2004

Also known as Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph) Boorstin, Daniel Boorstin, Daniel Joseph Boorstin

143 works

1939–2008 across 103 dated works

An American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.

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The mysterious science of the law: an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries, showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth-century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science1941
The lost world of Thomas Jefferson.1948
The genius of American politics1953
The Americans, the colonial experience.1958

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discoverers1983
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The Americans: the colonial experience. --1958
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination1992
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The Americans, the democratic experience1973
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The genius of American politics1953
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A history of the United States1981
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The image: or, What happened to the American dream.1961
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The Americans, the national experience1965
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World1998
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Cleopatra's nose: essays on the unexpected1994
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Hidden history1987
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An American primer1966
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The lost world of Thomas Jefferson.1948
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The mysterious science of the law: an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries, showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth-century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science1941
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Democracy and its discontents: reflections on everyday America1971
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America and the image of Europe: reflections on American thought.1960
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The republic of technology: reflections on our future community1978
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The Americans, the colonial experience.1958
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The exploring spirit: America and the world experience1976
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14)1960
With Isabella L. Bird
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The Discoverers: a history of man's search to his world and himself1987
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The landmark history of the American people1968
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We Americans1988
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American civilization; a portrait from the twentieth century.1972
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