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Pulitzer Prize for History (1974) Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. [2] He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987.
Daniel J. Boorstin was an influential social historian and educator known for his studies of American civilization, notably his major work, The Americans, in three volumes: The Colonial Experience (1958), The National Experience (1965), and The Democratic Experience (1973; Pulitzer Prize, 1974).
Daniel J. Boorstin, the twelfth Librarian of Congress, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 1, 1914. He was one of the two sons of Samuel Aaron Boorstin, a lawyer, and of Dora (Olsan) Boorstin. His grandparents on both sides of his family were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He grew up and attended public schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mar 1, 2004 · Daniel J. Boorstin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social historian who was the librarian of Congress for 12 years, died Saturday at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.
American historian Daniel J. Boorstin (born 1914) was a scholar with broad interests, best known as an advocate of a conservative, "consensus" interpretation of American history. He became Librarian of Congress in 1975.
While Boorstin was by no means the first to identify the importance of technology in the shaping of American history, he was one of the most influential in pushing technology from the periphery to the
Librarian of Congress Emeritus Daniel J. Boorstin, a prize-winning historian and the Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, died at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 28. The cause was pneumonia. Boorstin was 89 years old.
