What started out as a memorial service for Daniel J. Boorstin yesterday at the Library of Congress also turned into a lovefest for books, reading and the power of the written word. More than 200 ...

2000-12-24T13:16:13-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b72/20001224131955002_hd.jpgMr. Boorstin, historian and author, was honored for serving as Librarian of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin, who wrote more than 20 history books over his long career, has died. He was 89. Boorstin died early Saturday of pneumonia at Washington’s Sibley ...

Historian and author Daniel J. Boorstin died Saturday. He was 89 years old. Boorstin served as Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987 and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his book The Americans: ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin, a former Tulsan who wrote more than 20 history books over his long career, died Saturday. He was 89. Boorstin died after ...

v. 1. The Mayflower Compact, 1620 / Samuel Eliot Morison -- John Winthrop, A modell of Christian charity, 1630 / Lawrence W. Towner -- Mary Easty, Petition of an accused witch, 1692 / Edmund S. Morgan ...

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WASHINGTON - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin, who wrote more than 20 history books over his long career, died Saturday. He was 89. Dr. Boorstin died after midnight of pneumonia at ...