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Daniel J. Boorstin

1914 - 2004

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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, Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent exponent of consensus history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel J. Boorstin is the 431st most popular historian (up from 434th in 2019), the 7,606th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,080th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 431 out of 561. Before him are Anton Heinrich Springer, Alain Daniélou, Stephen E. Ambrose, Ilya Berezin, Albrecht Weber, and Martin van Creveld. After him are Charles A. Beard, Henry James Sumner Maine, Zdeněk Nejedlý, Abu Shama, Edward Duyker, and Cyril Mango.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 294. Before him are Victor Sen Yung, Severino Rigoni, Hermann Pilnik, Dagmar Lange, Carlo Biagi, and Peter Whitehead. After him are Juanita Moore, Mustafa Mansour, Yuri Linnik, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Josette Day, and Jack Medica. Among people deceased in 2004, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 232. Before him are Lennox Miller, Luis E. Miramontes, Adolf Ehrnrooth, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Tom Turesson, and Albert Mol. After him are Anna Lee, Jean Graczyk, Mahmut Atalay, Quorthon, Madeleine Robinson, and Marcelo González Martín.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 7,608 out of 20,380. Before him are Isabel Briggs Myers (1897), Alice Kober (1906), Rod Serling (1924), Janis Paige (1922), Francis Spellman (1889), and Ruby Bridges (1954). After him are Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Regis Philbin (1931), Edmund Wilson (1895), Margaret Harwood (1885), George Kennan (1845), and Gary Hall Jr. (1974).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 28. Before him are Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Stanley G. Payne (1934), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), and Stephen E. Ambrose (1936). After him are Charles A. Beard (1874), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), John King Fairbank (1907), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), and Robert Jay Lifton (1926).

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