The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World (Vintage) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World (Vintage) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• "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?" and "Why are we here?" "An admirable volume, thoroughly researched and beautifully arranged." --Washington Times Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man. "Unexcelled. . . . <It> confirms Boorstin's rank as one of the giants of twentieth-century American scholarship." --George F. Will "Delivered with . . . skill, unalloyed admiration, and a keen eye for detail." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World (Vintage) Monday, July 27 2009.

• Added a contributor: Daniel J. Boorstin: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World (Vintage) Thursday, July 16 2009.

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