New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. 717, bibliographical notes, index, some wear and small tear to top & bottom edges of DJ, small scratch front DJ, autograph laid in. More

New York: Random House, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. v, [5], 517, [1] pages. Bibiographical notes. Index. Slight weakness to front board. DJ soiled, some wear and small tears along top & bottom DJ edges. Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Repudiating his youthful membership in the Communist Party while a Harvard undergraduate (1938–39), Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent exponent of consensus history. He argued in The Genius of American Politics (1953) that ideology, propaganda, and political theory are foreign to America. His writings were often linked with such historians as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter as a proponent of the "consensus school", which emphasized the unity of the American people and downplayed class and social conflict. Boorstin especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story. More

New York: Random House, 1998. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 298, [8] pages. A personal Note to the Reader. Some Reference Notes. Index. Slight DJ wear. Inscribed by the author on the fep. The inscription reads For the Friends of the Dallas Public Library==fellow Seekers--with greetings from Daniel J. Boorstin May 12, 1999. This broad work addresses aspects of Moses, Isaiah, Job, Evil, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Common Sense, Fellowship, Faith, Universities, Erasmus, Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Machiavelli, John Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Hegel, Science, Karl Marx, Spengler, Toynbee, Revolution, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kierkegaard, Consciousness, William James, Diversity, Bewilderment, Lord Acton, Malraux, Bergson, and Einstein. Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent exponent of consensus history. He argued in The Genius of American Politics (1953) that ideology, propaganda, and political theory are foreign to America. His writings were often seen, along with those of historians such as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter, as belonging to the "consensus school", which emphasized the unity of the American people and downplayed class and social conflict. More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Presumed first single volume edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii, [1], 994 pages. One volume edition. No DJ present. Footnotes. Index of Authors, Titles, and Editors. General Index. Index of Words and Phrases. some soiling to fore-edge, some discoloration inside hinges, small tear title page, some wear to board & spine edges. Primary sources on American history, including the petition of the accused witch Mary Easty, Thomas A. Edison on the industrial research laboratory, and Louis H. Sullivan on the skyscraper. Albert J. Beveridge, "the March of the Flag, " 1898, ed. by Ernest R. May (pp. 621-629), treats the Spanish-American War. Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. More