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Oct 01, 1914 Atlanta, Georgia, United States Died on 28 Feb 2004 (aged 89)
American historian
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About Daniel J. Boorstin
- Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history.
- He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987.
- He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Repudiating his youthful membership in the Communist Party while a Harvard undergraduate (1938–39), Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent exponent of consensus history.
- He argued in The Genius of American Politics (1953) that ideology, propaganda, and political theory are foreign to America.
- His writings were often linked with such historians as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter as a proponent of the "consensus school", which emphasized the unity of the American people and downplayed class and social conflict.
- Boorstin especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story.
