Daniel Boorstin (1914–2004)
Autore di The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Sull'Autore
A prolific writer, Daniel Boorstin is the author of numerous scholarly and popular works in American Studies. Born in Georgia and raised in Oklahoma, Boorstin received degrees from Harvard and Yale universities and was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. A member of the Massachusetts Bar, mostra altro he has been visiting professor of American History at the Universities of Rome, Puerto Rico, Kyoto, and Geneva. He was the first incumbent of the chair of American History at the Sorbonne and Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge. He taught at the University of Chicago for 25 years. In 1959 Columbia University awarded him its Bancroft Prize for The Americans: The Colonial Experience (1958), the first volume of his trilogy titled The Americans. In 1966 he received the Francis Parkman Award for the second volume, The Americans: The National Experience (1965), and in 1974 he received the Pulitzer Prize for the third volume, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1973). Many of Boorstin's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and various European languages. In 1969 Boorstin became director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1973 he became senior historian at the Smithsonian. Boorstin was appointed Librarian of Congress in 1975 and served in that position with distinction for 12 years, becoming Librarian Emeritus in 1987. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
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Opere di Daniel Boorstin
Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J Boorstin on Books, Reading and Libraries, 1975-1987 (1988) 14 copie
America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought (Meridian Books, M89) (1960) 13 copie
The sociology of the absurd;: Or, The application of Professor X (A Touchstone book) (1970) 11 copie
Newsweek Condensed Books: Survive the Savage Sea, Laughing All the Way, Food in History, The Americans (1973) 4 copie
Upptäckarna. 3, Samhället : skrivkonsten, boken, arkeologi och historia, samhällsvetenskaper (1989) 3 copie
Essays on History 1 copia
IMAX: The Discoverers [1993 film] — Screenwriter — 1 copia
Descoperitorii, volumul I 1 copia
Cleopatra's Nose 1 copia
Descoperitorii, volumul II 1 copia
De gjorde verden større Bind 1 1 copia
De gjorde verden større Bind 2 1 copia
De gjorde verden større Bind 3 1 copia
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged) (2013) 1 copia
L'Image 1 copia
Os Descobridores 1 copia
The Discoverers 1st (first) Edition by Boorstin, Daniel J published by Random House USA Inc (1988) 1 copia
Entdeckungen 1 copia
KESIFLER VE BULUSLAR 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (1946) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 3,428 copie
La democrazia in America volume 1. (1835) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,036 copie
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Collaboratore — 429 copie
The Spanish-speaking world : an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives (1992) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Boorstin, Daniel
- Nome legale
- Boorstin, Daniel Joseph
- Altri nomi
- Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Data di nascita
- 1914-10-01
- Data di morte
- 2004-02-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Causa della morte
- pneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (BA|1934)
Balliol College, University of Oxford (BA|1936|BCL|1937)
Yale University (SJD|1940) - Attività lavorative
- librarian
writer
historian
professor
director
barrister (mostra tutto 8)
lawyer
Librarian of Congress (1975-1987) - Relazioni
- Boorstin, Jon (son)
- Organizzazioni
- Library of Congress
University of Chicago (Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History)
Swarthmore College
Authors League of America
American Studies Association (president | 1969-1970)
American Historical Association (mostra tutto 15)
National Museum of History and Technology (USA)
Organization of American Historians
International House of Japan
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Authors Guild
Elizabethan Club
Cosmos Club
Inner Temple (1937)
Massachusetts Bar (1942) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Charles Frankel Prize (1989)
Distinguished Service to the Humanities Award (Phi Beta Kappa)
National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters (1989)
Rhodes Scholar (1934-37)
Order of the Sacred Treasure, First Class (1986)
Bowdoin Prize (1934) (mostra tutto 17)
Pulitzer Prize (1974)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969)
American Philosophical Society (1981)
Bancroft Prize (1959)
Francis Parkman Prize (1966)
Golden Plate Award (1986)
Tulsa Hall of Fame (1989)
Oklahoma Book Award 91993)
Royal Historical Society
Dexter Prize (1974)
American Antiquarian Society (1969)
Utenti
Discussioni
Daniel Boorstin and Jacques Barzun in Ancient History (Aprile 2011)
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 83
- Opere correlate
- 21
- Utenti
- 14,849
- Popolarità
- #1,551
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 102
- ISBN
- 244
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 21