Daniel J. Boorstin: A Comprehensive and Selectively Annotated Bibliography
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Daniel J. Boorstin: A Comprehensive and Selectively Annotated Bibliography
By (Author) Angela Michele Leonard
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
30th November 2000
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Historiography
Bibliographies, catalogues
016.9072
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Description
One of the best known consensus or synthesis historians, Daniel J. Boorstin crosses disciplinary boundaries by writing about universities and students, lawyers and historians, history of science and everyday phenomena, material and popular culture, libraries and literacy, film and theater, statistics and words, airwaves and highways, and generally speaking, the past, present, and world to come. This bibliography brings together works by and about Boorstin, showing the volume, range, and importance of his contribution to the study of American history. With more than 1,300 entries, the bibliography records a history of Daniel Boorstin in print and non-print from 1930 to 1999. It covers a multitude of types of entries, including monographs, book reviews by and about Boorstin, newspaper and scholarly articles, manuscript and archival material, videocassettes, sound reels, Websites, and CD-ROMs. Entries are selectively annotated, in many instances using direct quotes from Boorstin, to give the reader a snapshot understanding of the works cited. This book will be the definitive Boorstin bibliography.
Reviews
"Daniel Boorstin is one of the most challenging and original of American historians, and this comprehensive annotated bibliography is a demonstration of his range and influence."-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"The Boorstin Bibliography brings together an amazing variety of sources, from popular magazines to court reports, reflecting the range and diversity of Daniel Boorstin's interests and audience. Carefully compiled and thoughtfully annotated by Angela Leonard, a historian and librarian, the work is a fitting tribute to Boorstin's career as historian and Librarian of Congress."-Jean L. Preer Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science The Catholic University of America
"There is no one like Daniel Boorstin, in the range and vitality of his scholarship and ideas, and very few have been so productive. To have a complete guide to his work such as this is cause for celebration."-David McCullogh author of Truman
Author Bio
ANGELA MICHELE LEONARD is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola College in Maryland.
