Daniel Boorstin (1914–2004)
Autor/a de The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de Daniel Boorstin
Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J Boorstin on Books, Reading and Libraries, 1975-1987 (1988) 14 exemplars
America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought (Meridian Books, M89) (1960) 13 exemplars
The sociology of the absurd;: Or, The application of Professor X (A Touchstone book) (1970) 11 exemplars
Newsweek Condensed Books: Survive the Savage Sea, Laughing All the Way, Food in History, The Americans (1973) 4 exemplars
Upptäckarna. 3, Samhället : skrivkonsten, boken, arkeologi och historia, samhällsvetenskaper (1989) 3 exemplars
Descoperitorii, volumul II 1 exemplars
Los grandes descubrimientos. El Tiempo Volumen 1 1 exemplars
Descoperitorii, volumul I 1 exemplars
Cleopatra's Nose 1 exemplars
Essays on History 1 exemplars
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself Part 2 of 3 (1985) 1 exemplars
Los grandes descubrimientos. La Naturaleza 1 exemplars
Os Descobridores 1 exemplars
IMAX: The Discoverers [1993 film] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplars
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged) (2013) 1 exemplars
De gjorde verden større Bind 1 1 exemplars
De gjorde verden større Bind 2 1 exemplars
De gjorde verden større Bind 3 1 exemplars
The Discoverers and The Creators - 2 Book Set 1 exemplars
The Discoverers 1st (first) Edition by Boorstin, Daniel J published by Random House USA Inc (1988) 1 exemplars
Visiting our past : America's historylands 1 exemplars
L'Image 1 exemplars
KESIFLER VE BULUSLAR 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (1946) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 3,410 exemplars
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Mueller} (1781) — Introducció — 1,196 exemplars
Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835) — Introducció, algunes edicions; Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,032 exemplars
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Col·laborador — 429 exemplars
The Spanish-speaking world : an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives (1992) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Boorstin, Daniel
- Nom oficial
- Boorstin, Daniel Joseph
- Altres noms
- Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Data de naixement
- 1914-10-01
- Data de defunció
- 2004-02-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Causa de la mort
- pneumonia
- Llocs de residència
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Educació
- Harvard University (BA|1934)
Balliol College, University of Oxford (BA|1936|BCL|1937)
Yale University (SJD|1940) - Professions
- librarian
writer
historian
professor
director
barrister (mostra-les totes 8)
lawyer
Librarian of Congress (1975-1987) - Relacions
- Boorstin, Jon (son)
- Organitzacions
- 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-les totes 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) - Premis i honors
- 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-les totes 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)
Membres
Converses
Daniel Boorstin and Jacques Barzun a Ancient History (abril 2011)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 80
- També de
- 21
- Membres
- 14,780
- Popularitat
- #1,559
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 102
- ISBN
- 242
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 21