Daniel Boorstin (1914–2004)
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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, mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Daniel Boorstin
Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J Boorstin on Books, Reading and Libraries, 1975-1987 (1988) 14 copias
America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought (Meridian Books, M89) (1960) 13 copias
The sociology of the absurd;: Or, The application of Professor X (A Touchstone book) (1970) 11 copias
Newsweek Condensed Books: Survive the Savage Sea, Laughing All the Way, Food in History, The Americans (1973) 4 copias
Upptäckarna. 3, Samhället : skrivkonsten, boken, arkeologi och historia, samhällsvetenskaper (1989) 3 copias
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
Obras relacionadas
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (1946) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 3,426 copias
La democracia en America I (1835) — Introducción, algunas ediciones; Introducción, algunas ediciones — 1,036 copias
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 429 copias
The Spanish-speaking world : an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives (1992) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Boorstin, Daniel
- Nombre legal
- Boorstin, Daniel Joseph
- Otros nombres
- Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-10-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2004-02-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- pneumonia
- Lugares de residencia
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University (BA|1934)
Balliol College, University of Oxford (BA|1936|BCL|1937)
Yale University (SJD|1940) - Ocupaciones
- librarian
writer
historian
professor
director
barrister (mostrar todos 8)
lawyer
Librarian of Congress (1975-1987) - Relaciones
- Boorstin, Jon (son)
- Organizaciones
- 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 (mostrar todos 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) - Premios y honores
- 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) (mostrar todos 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)
Miembros
Debates
Daniel Boorstin and Jacques Barzun en Ancient History (abril 2011)
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- Obras
- 83
- También por
- 21
- Miembros
- 14,845
- Popularidad
- #1,553
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 102
- ISBNs
- 244
- Idiomas
- 16
- Favorito
- 21