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...celebrated historian and author, Boorstin is recognized for his 12 years of service as Librarian of Congress and for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Americans: The Democratic Experience...
...editor of The Crimson during his years at Harvard, Boorstin lectured on legal history at the Law School during the early 1940s. He later served for 25 years on the faculty of the University of Chicago as a professor of American history...
Daniel J. Boorstin...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin...
...fact, as historian Daniel J. Boorstin recounted in The Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...