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Historian Daniel Boorstin is a man with an encyclopedic mind and a crusty disregard for the conventional chronicling of what he calls, with disdain, "important events." His idiosyncratic approach to history needs no better demonstration than this third volume of a trilogy that has included The Americans: The Colonial Experience and The Americans: The National Experience...
...rounds out Boorstin's version of the American experience by taking the measure of the U.S. during the last hundred years, but it is the century as no other historian has portrayed...
...Boorstin's bias, which he reveals in a marvelously personal, crotchety set of bibliographical notes, is toward "the universal and the commonplace." Since this is an American history, he emphasizes commerce, technology and increasingly conspicuous consumption...
...about to let any rumors interfere with my right to select my own friends." Quietly, Agnew has been visiting compatible intellectuals, possibly in search of stimulation on some of the deeper emerging national issues. They include Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa, Futurist Herman Kahn and Historian Daniel Boorstin...
...into anything other than one of Edgar Allan Poe's tomblike vaults-let alone invest it with the otherworldly aura of Prospero's mysterious island. Of itself, Robert McCleary's woodland setting, overgrown with mosses and shadows though it was, did not overcome this difficulty. But Boorstin's incantatory approach more than compensated. The first scene opened after a long, disoriented period of darkness during which three sprites, among them Ariel, introduced the audience to the magical qualities of their island world. The sprites-Ben Fitzgerald, Anne Pedersen, and Elin Diamond as Ariel-were able to animate the play...