| Daniel Boorstin  AKA Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Born: 1-Oct-1914
Birthplace: Atlanta, GA
Died: 28-Feb-2004
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Creators Father: Samuel Boorstin (d.)
Mother: Dora Olsan
Wife: Ruth Carolyn Frankel (m. 9-Apr-1941, until his death, three sons)
Son: Paul
Son: Jonathan
Son: David
University: BA, Harvard University (1934)
University: PhD, Yale University
Law School: Balliol College, Oxford University (1936)
Law School: Balliol College, Oxford University (1937)
Professor: University of Chicago (25 years)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1974 for The Americans\: The Democratic Experience
Rhodes Scholarship
Communist Party 1930s
Smithsonian Institution 1969-73 National Museum of History and Technology
Librarian of Congress 1975-87
Author of books:
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
The Genius of American Politics (1953)
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
The Sociology of the Absurd (1970)
The Americans, The Democratic Experience (1974)
Democracy and its Discontents (1974)
The Exploring Spirit (1976)
The Republic of Technology (1978)
The Discoverers (1983)
Hidden History (1987)
The Creators (1992)
The Seekers (1998)
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