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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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The future has always been the great treasure-house of meaning.

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  1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Author)
 

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