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...third volume of his prizewinning trilogy The Americans, Historian Daniel Boorstin described the American story as largely a process of "countless, little-noticed revolutions [occurring] not in the halls of legislatures or on battlefields or on the barricades but in homes and farms and factories and schools and stores." They were "so little noticed because they came so swiftly, because they touched Americans everywhere and every...
...crackled in the fireplace of the White House Red Room as butlers served drinks from silver trays to President Gerald Ford, a handful of aides and his four guests: Historian Daniel Boorstin, Harvard Government Professor James Q. Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Fellow Martin Diamond and Chicago Lawyer John Robson. The group moved to a first floor dining room for a meal of roast beef, mixed vegetables and fruit salad. The scene was more reminiscent of the White House of Thomas Jefferson, who had company at his dinner table nearly every night for leisurely conversation, than that of Richard Nixon, who guarded...
Ford, looking tired but relaxed and reflective, gently steered the conversation to the problems of presidential leadership in an era of pessimism. The scholars picked up the cue. Boorstin told the President that skepticism about political leaders is inherent and healthy in democracy. Diamond noted that the challenge of leadership is to balance skepticism with trust. Wilson observed that the malaise in America had increased since the 1950s particularly because many people felt that the quality of life had not kept pace with technological advance. Ford suggested that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far toward a national "self-destructive...
...tend to lose their credentials temporarily. The most obvious case is Henry Kissinger. His name is nowhere on the official list, an omission that Kadushin informally corrects by noting that Kissinger is "a leading American intellectual." The Kissinger syndrome may also explain the absence from the list of Daniel Boorstin (author of The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream and Decline of Radicalism), who in 1969 was a divisional director of the Smithsonian Institution...
Near Thing. Finally, about half of Moyers' shows are conversations with people who view public life from angles not much reported on television. He has talked things over this season with, among others, Black Poet Maya Angelou, Labor Leader Harry Bridges and Historian Daniel Boorstin. Last week, Moyers interviewed Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, who has been carrying on a love-hate relation ship with the U.S. for more than 30 years...