Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
He died in 2004..
He was the director of the Smithsonian\'s National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress.
In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature.
Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience
The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.
About the Author: Daniel J.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present
