The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination: 1 - Brossura

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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ISBN 10: 0679743758 ISBN 13: 9780679743750

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1993

Riassunto

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers chronicles the history of the arts, offering biographies ranging from Homer to Stravinsky incorporated into a mosaic of creativity that spans three thousand years. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

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Recensione

"The capston to one of the greatest careers in the history of American intellectual endeavor.  With The Creators, Boorstin enters the ranks of the 'heroes of the imagination.'" —George F. Will

"A remarkable achievement an a pleasure to read." —The New York Times Book Review

"There are few writers who could tackle so vast a subject with as much verve or self-assurance or infectious enthusiam as Boorstin. . . . He combines lively opinion a distinguished historian's erudition, with a first-class journalist's clarity and eye for the revealing anecdote . . . irresitible." —USA Today

L'autore

Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679743758
• ISBN 13: 9780679743750
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 832