Hidden History : Exploring Our Secret Past

Boorstin, Daniel J.; Boorstin, Ruth Frankel

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ISBN 10: 0060390719 ISBN 13: 9780060390716

Published by NY: Harper & Row, 1987

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Bright blue cl., w. gilt lettering on cover, backstr. Dj. unclipped, lt. line of foxing to top interior. Xxv, 332pp. incl. index.

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Title

Hidden History : Exploring Our Secret Past

Publisher

NY: Harper & Row

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060390719

ISBN 13

9780060390716

Binding

Hardcover

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1st Edition

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As New

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As New

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In thirty interrelated essays, eminent Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explores the hidden history of America and the secret pitfalls and virtues of American democracy

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In his 70s, Boorstin recently retired as Librarian of Congress, a position that he had held since 1975 that capped his career as one of America's eminent historians. In this collection of essays the author of The Discovers and the trilogy The Americans writes with the breadth and vitality that mark all his books. His title has deliberate meaning: Boorstin implies the historian's need to probe socio-political patterns from philosophical and uncliched angles. Here he recaptures his "historical adventures," ranging from a study of the historian's discipline (his insight into Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as an "intimate" work is rich and subtle) through a look at America as a "By-Product Nation" not greatly driven by theories, but rather formed by action under stress (he sees FDR's four-term presidency as an example). And finally, a series of segments from his writingspresent his views of America's "unsung" political experiments. Boorstin's closing emphasis on our unacknowledged dominance by the "kingdom of the Machine" leads readers to hope for his further expansion of this theme.
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