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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere G-d and to be G-d.
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| Birth: | 1st October, 1914 |
| Death: | 28th February, 2004 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Historian, Lawyer, Librarian, Professor, Writer |
About
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was an American historian at the University of Chicago, writing on many topics in American history and world history. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He graduated with highest honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving BA and BCL degrees and earned an SJD degree at Yale University. He was a professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years and was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge in 1964. He wrote more than 20 books, including two major trilogies, one on the American experience and the other on world intellectual history. The Americans: The Democratic Experience, the final book in the first trilogy, received the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in history.
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