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Historian of Hope |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Edward S. Shapiro |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 3,918 Words, 25,165 Characters |
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HIDDEN HISTORY
Exploring Our Secret Past
Daniel J. Boorstin
New York: Harper & Row, 1987
334 pp., $19.95
For the past thirty years, the publication of a book by Daniel J. Boorstin has been a significant event in American intellectual life. The Colonial Experience (1958), the first volume of his three-part history of the United States, won the Bancroft Prize. The second volume, The National Experience (1965), won the Parkman Prize. The third volume, The Democratic Experience (1973), won the Pulitzer Prize for history and the Dexter Prize, and was a Book of the Month Club main selection. The Discoverers (1983), his most famous book, was on the New York Times best-seller list for six months. It also won the History of Science Society's Watson Davis Prize.
Hidden Hi...
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... all over the world an immigrant's vision--who saw, and created, new possibilities in politics, in society, in art, in literature, in science, in technology."
Sophisticates would simultaneously sneer at such words and warn against an invasion of new opportunity seekers from Latin America and Asia. This would not be coincidental, since Boorstin is the preeminent historian of American hope.
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