During the 1960s Boorstin angered students for his opposition to affirmative action and campus protests. He taught history at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1969, writing while there The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948), The Genius of American Politics (1953), and the first two volumes of The Americans, his analysis of American history and culture’s distinctive characteristics. from Harvard University (1934) and two law degrees from the University of Oxford (1936, 1937) as a Rhodes scholar. Boorstin, in full Daniel Joseph Boorstin, (born October 1, 1914, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.-died February 28, 2004, Washington, D.C.), influential social historian and educator known for his studies of American civilization, notably his major work, The Americans, in three volumes: The Colonial Experience (1958), The National Experience (1965), and The Democratic Experience (1973 Pulitzer Prize, 1974).īoorstin received his B.A.

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