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Daniel Boorstin 1914-2004
One of the truly great writer-historians. Required reading when I was in college, whcih is only as it should be. But he was so much more than "merely" a great interpreter of our past--
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/national/29BOOR.html
Not always a perfect man, not even someone I would have agreed with a great deal of the time. But we needed him then, and we'll miss him now.
"For each of us, reading remains a private, uniquely qualitative nook of our life. As readers, then, we are refugees from the flood of contemporaneous mathematicized homogeneity. With a book, we are at home with ourselves." -- Daniel Boorstin, on books.
*raises glass to one who will be missed...*
One of the truly great writer-historians. Required reading when I was in college, whcih is only as it should be. But he was so much more than "merely" a great interpreter of our past--
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/national/29BOOR.html
Not always a perfect man, not even someone I would have agreed with a great deal of the time. But we needed him then, and we'll miss him now.
"For each of us, reading remains a private, uniquely qualitative nook of our life. As readers, then, we are refugees from the flood of contemporaneous mathematicized homogeneity. With a book, we are at home with ourselves." -- Daniel Boorstin, on books.
*raises glass to one who will be missed...*
