The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition by Daniel J. Boorstin audiobook

The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

By Daniel J. Boorstin
Foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin
Afterword by Douglas Rushkoff
Read by Timothy Danko

Blackstone Publishing 9780679741800

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781982550073

  • ISBN: 9781982550066

  • ISBN: 9781982550080

Runtime: 10.85 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/History
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A book that everyone in America should read every few years.” —Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
“A very informative and entertaining and chastising book.” —Harper’s
“An engrossing book—sensitive, thoughtful, damning, dead on target, and in most respects unanswerable.” —Scientific American
“Excellent…It is the book to end all books about ‘The American Image’—what it is, who projects it, what effect it has at home or abroad.” —Observer
“Tells us how to see and listen, and how to think about what we see and hear.” —George F. Will, author of Men at Work

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Author

Author Bio: Daniel J. Boorstin

Author Bio: Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), educated at Harvard, Yale, and Oxford, was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was a Librarian of Congress Emeritus, having directed the US national library from 1979 to 1987, and helped create the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. He had previously been director of the National Museum for History and Technology and of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

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Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/History
Runtime: 10.85
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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