Historian and author Daniel J. Boorstin died Saturday. He was 89 years old. Boorstin served as Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987 and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his book The ...

A celebrity, in Daniel J. Boorstin’s lapidary definition, is someone “known for his well-knownness.” There were famous people in earlier periods, of course. But celebrities, in Mr. Boorstin ...

Mr. Boorstin, historian and author, was honored for serving as Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987. A bio-bibliography of his work, [Daniel J. Boorstin: A Comprehensive and Selectively ...

THE AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstin. 517 pages. Random House. $8.95. “What then is the American, this new man?” Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville asked the question ...

An evident running theme is that the human capacity for imagination is what makes civilization possible. Boorstin writes: “The Creator, unlike the Discoverer, does not find new lands, but makes new ...

December 4, 2000 Tribute to Historian Daniel J. Boorstin. Mr. Boorstin, historian and author, was honored for serving as Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin, a former Tulsan who wrote more than 20 history books over his long career, died Saturday. He was 89.