Daniel J Boorstin Editor (37 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Trade Edition Stated. 210 Pages Indexed. Second Printing of the First Trade Edition. Dust jacket price $23.00 is unclipped. No marks or stamps noted. Gift quality. This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. The author has had unparalleled success in writing history and essays. The Discoverers, The Creators, and The Americans have been acclaimed all over the world and have been translated into twenty-five languages. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdomthe kingdom of machines-contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, created the need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a personal postscript, Boorstin gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and optimistically celebrates the United States as the Land of the Unexpected.

Soft cover. Condition: Almost Like New. First Softcover Edition. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (illustrator). Softcover includes b/w illustrations, Maps, Tables and Notes, 1258 pages. The exception to the condition is a remainder dot on the bottom of the text block.

paperback. Condition: As New. Appears to be unused, book still in shrink wrap. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Poor. 260 pp. Solidly bound copy with heavy overall use. Still an acceptable study copy. Previous owner's name inscribed. Creasing and discoloration present.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. lacks the box / slipcase. 2 volume set. nice shape but no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Normal book wear; significant dust jacket wear. Size: Oversized. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. Small scrape on lower front cover, with light normal edge wear and light soils; former owner's rubber stamp on upper and lower page ends as well as fore-edge. A critical study on Twentieth Century society. 313 pages. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. First Printing. First printing, January 1968, stated. A 1056-page compendium of important American documents, from "The Mayflower Compact" to Lyndon Johnson's "Address on Voting Rights." Pages are unmarked, wraps and spine have light creasing; sleeve protected.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, 11th Impression. Text/Strong, clean & Near New. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasing parallel to spine. 11th Printing of 1974. Classic, in depth, analysis of the collision of world orders between European newcomers with notions of nation states and that of indigenious, highly independent tribes. 6 chapters: I, Colonial Preparation; II Foes & Friends; III, Indian Removal; IV, The Warriors' Last Stand; V, Acculturation Under Duress; and, VI (added chapter to this edition), The Indian New Deal & After.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine bright blue cloth with gilt lettering in a Near Fine lightly rubbed dust jacket. Bright, snug & unmarked first printing.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Viking, New York, 1992.FINE Large size paperback. First Softcover Edition, First Printing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDReference. Crease to front cover else very good.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFine in fine dust jacket.

94pp. 8vo Black cloth. First Printing so stated. Annotated with an introduction by the editor. Text occasionally marked in black ink, institutional stamp on title page: VG/VG- dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Near Fine blue cloth quarto with a hint of toning at pagination edges. In a Very Good + to Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear. Bright, snug & unmarked book club edition. This large tome posts at default media mail rate; priority & international to be quoted.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 6th printing edition. 224 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Leinen. Condition: Gut. Photos And Drawings (illustrator). 35,5 cm ; Überaus großformatige und schwere englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe, Leineneinband mit Golddruck, 352 Seiten mit sehr zahlreichen interessanten Fotos und Illustrationen. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw832.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With gift inscription, else fine in a near-perfect jacket with original $29.95 price. A sumptuous volume, brilliantly illuminating the panorama of American history. With chapters by distinguished authors and lavishly and brilliantly illustrated. They don't make them like this any more. Looks crisp and clean. This heavy book will need extra postage due to it's weight and size.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 234+4 pp. Original silver cloth covers, lightly soiled. Top of spine and top corner of front cover bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Illust. w/ a fold-out plan of the City of Lowell. Contents nice.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Piranesi, Gian Battista (illustrator). modern library edition. 1258 pages. 8.25x4.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Piranesi, Gian Battista (illustrator). modern library edition. 1258 pages. 8.25x4.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Goetz, John P. (Book Design) (illustrator). First Edition. Dk. blue full cloth boards, gilt stamped spine titles, lt. shelf wear, rub. Pages fine, no writing. The 83 most important documents of the American past are presented with commentary by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Henry Steele Commager, and other distinguished historians. The selections span the spectrum of American history as it was made, and as it was lived. 994 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

First Meridian Printing. 12mo. [xi], 1056 pp. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, very good condition. (10531).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. volume 1 - 492 pp, volume 2 - 493 to 994 pp, the 2 volume set is clean and tight, they are enclosed in a slipcase which is in good condition also. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Very good condition. Spine tips, corners and bottom cover edges are rubbed. 994 total pages with three indexes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Quarto. xvii, [1], 994 pages. One volume edition. No DJ present. Footnotes. Index of Authors, Titles, and Editors. General Index. Index of Words and Phrases. some soiling to fore-edge, some discoloration inside hinges, small tear title page, some wear to board & spine edges. Primary sources on American history, including the petition of the accused witch Mary Easty, Thomas A. Edison on the industrial research laboratory, and Louis H. Sullivan on the skyscraper. Albert J. Beveridge, "the March of the Flag, " 1898, ed. by Ernest R. May (pp. 621-629), treats the Spanish-American War. 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. 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 seen, along with those of historians such as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter, as belonging to 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. An American Primer is an anthology of key American documents, laws, and writings that illustrate the nation's history and culture. It features 83 selections, from the Mayflower Compact to a 1965 Voting Rights speech, with commentary from prominent historians like Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Henry Steele Commager, providing context on the American way of life. This features analysis and commentary from numerous distinguished historians. and covers a wide range of American political, economic, and cultural history. Presumed first single volume edition, first printing.