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Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin: Great American Author and Historian


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 visiting professor of American History at the University of Rome,
Italy, the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and at Kyoto University,
Japan. He was the first incumbent of the chair of American History at the
Sorbonne, and was the Professor of American History and Institutions as
well as Fellow of Trinity College, at Camb... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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