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Daniel J. Boorstin

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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.


— Daniel J. Boorstin


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About Daniel J. Boorstin






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The idea of pseudo-events anticipates later work by Jean Baudrillard and Guy Debord. Books
The Mysterious Science of the Law (1941)
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
The Genius of American Politics (1953)
The Americans: The Colonial Experience (1958)
America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought (1960)
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains: Introduction (1960)
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America (1962)
The Americans: The National Experience (1965)
The Landmark History of the American People: From Plymouth to Appomattox (1968)
The Decline of Radicalism: Reflections of America Today (1969)
The Landmark History of the American People: From Appomattox to the Moon (1970)
The Sociology of the Absurd: Or the Application of Professor X (1970)
The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1973)
Democracy and Its Discontents: Reflections on Everyday America (1974)
The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Then and Now (1976)
The Republic of Technology (1978)
A History of the United States with Brooks M. He also served as director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution.

He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1 1914 – February 28 2004) was an American historian professor attorney and writer.

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