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Biography of Daniel J. Boorstin
Name: Daniel J. Boorstin
Birth Date: October 1, 1914
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: historian, scholar
Daniel J. Boorstin
American historian Daniel J. Boorstin (born 1914) was a scholar with broad interests, best known as an advocate of a conservative, "consensus" interpretation of American history. He became Librarian of Congress in 1975.Daniel J. Boorstin was born on October 1, 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His writings later reflected some of the spirit of his childhood home, a booming oil city full of optimism and entrepreneurial possibilities. After graduating from high school at age 15, he entered Harvard University where he won the Bowdoin Prize for his senior honors essay in 1934. Awarded a Rhodes scholarship, he studied law at Oxford University's Balliol College and achieved a prestigious double first--first-class honors in two degrees, a B.A. in jurisprudence (1936) and a Bachelor of Civil Laws (1937).Boorstin returned to the United States in 1937 and spent a year at Yale Law School, which subsequently (1940) awarded him a Doctor of Juridical Science …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…followed these with The Seekers: A History of Man's Search for Meaning in 1998, which focused on the the ways in which people have looked for meaning and answers throughout history. In all Boorstin authored or edited more than 26 works, which have since been translated into more than 25 languages. Further Reading Three short sources on Daniel J. Boorstin's life and thought are available: J. R. Pole, "Daniel J. Boorstin," in Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (1969), edited by Marcus Cunliffe and Robin W. Winks; "Daniel J. Boorstin," in John Wakeman, ed., World Authors, 1950-1970 (1975); and Frank Annunziata, "Daniel J. Boorstin," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American Historians (1983).A brief biography of Boorstin can be found on the Internet at http://www.epirotiki.com/solareclipse/boorstin.html (July 1997). For a synopsis of a recent Boorstin speech, see The Stanford Daily Online at http://daily.stanford.org/Daily96-97/10-10-96/News/Newboorstin10.html (July 1997).
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