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The former Librarian of Congress and the author of the best-selling The Discoverers chronicles the human search for meaning and purpose as revealed through the lives and words of Moses, Plato, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Marx, Emerson, Einstein, and other great thinkers. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

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"Impressive. . . . Boorstin reminds us what intellectual history on the grand scale looks like." --The New York Times Book Review

"Unexcelled. . . . [It] confirms Boorstin's rank as one of the giants of twentieth-century American scholarship." --George F. Will

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Daniel J. Boorstin is also the author of The Americans, a trilogy that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.  In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature.  He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress.  He lives with his wife and editor, Ruth F. Boorstin, in Washington, D.C.

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  • PublisherRandom House USA Inc
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0679434453
  • ISBN 13 9780679434450
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages309
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