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"Impressive. . . . Boorstin reminds us what intellectual history on the grand scale looks like." --The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?"... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Locke: Add a description of this character.
- Einstein
- Malraux
- Aristotle
- Rousseau
- Calvin
- Karl Marx
- Virgil
- Bergson
- Luther
- Machiavelli
- Thomas More
- Constantine
- Socrates
- Bacon
- Spengler
- Beckett
- William James
- Wilson
- Bertrand Russell
- Holmes
- Alexander
- Jefferson
- Dion
- Aeneas
- Descartes
- Kierkegaard
- Boyle
- Maxwell
- Gibbon
- Abelard
- Darwin
- Emerson
- Godot
- Acton
- Holland
- Antipater
- Boas
Setting & Locations edit
- Paris
- Rome
- Europe
- Athens
- Greece
- Italy
- France
- Israel
- England
- Germany
- Geneva
- America
- Egypt
- Russia
- The Republic
- United States
- Florence
- Jerusalem
- Utopia
- Syracuse
- Spain
- Asia
- Condorcet
- Islam
- Monte Cassino
- Africa
- Goethe
- Indochina
- Born
- London
- New World
- Macedonia
- Berlin
- New York
- Middle Ages
- Mexico
- Scotland
- Cambridge
- Iliad
- Judaism
- Sicily
- Lisbon
First Sentence edit
The future has always been the great treasure-house of meaning.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel J. Boorstin (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 909
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › History & Surveys
- Books › History › Ancient › Early Civilization
- Books › History › World
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