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Dr Daniel J. Boorstin - College Paper

Dr Daniel J. Boorstin

Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin (1914- ) holds many honorable positions and has
received numerous awards for his notable work. He is one of America's most
eminent historians, the author of more than fifteen books and numerous
articles on the history of the United States, as well as a creator of a
television show. His editor-wife, Ruth Frankel Boorstin, a Wellesley
graduate, has been his close collaborator.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Oklahoma, he received his
undergraduate degree with highest honors from Harvard and his doctor's
degree from Yale. He has spent a great deal of his life abroad, first in
England as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. More recently he
has been ...

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He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has
been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he
received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to
American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.

Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial
Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National
Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic
Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a
best selling history of man's search to know the world and himself, was
awarded the Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. His other
works include The Mysterious Science of Law, The Genius of American
Politics, and The Republic of Technology. In addition, he is the editor of
An American Primer and the thirty volume series The Chicago History of
American Civilization. His books have been translated into twenty-five
languages (GBN ...

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Added: 5/29/2006 09:17:25 AM
Category: Biographies
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