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...stayed at Chicago for 25 years. Though he taught at many universities, the conservative Boorstin, who was strongly opposed to affirmative action, said he never felt comfortable surrounded by liberal academic historians...
Although they had different takes on history, Foner said Boorstin was “always extremely kind and courteous...
...Boorstin was one of the great historians of that generation,” Columbia History Professor Eric Foner said...
Known for his bow ties and his conservatism, Boorstin coined the phrase “pseudo-event” to describe a situation that was staged to get news coverage and mold the public’s perception. He offered the Nixon-Kennedy television debates as his prime example of a staged historical event...
...Boorstin taught at Harvard, Radcliffe and Swarthmore before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago...