Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.
Praise for Daniel J. Boorstin's The Image
“A very informative and entertaining and chastising book.”
—Harper’s
“A book that everyone in America should read every few years.
Stunning in its prescience, it explains virtually every aspect of
our mass media's evolution and seductiveness.”
—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit From the
Goon Squad
“An engrossing book—sensitive, thoughtful, damning, dead on target
and in most respects unanswerable.”
—Scientific American
“Excellent. . . It is the book to end all books about ‘The American
Image’—what it is, who projects it, what effect it has at home or
abroad.”
—The Observer
“A brilliant and original essay about the black arts and corrupting
influences of advertising and public relations.”
—The Guardian
“Boorstin’s book tells us how to see and listen, and how to think
about what we see and hear.”
—George Will
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
