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Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a compilation of essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Daniel Boorstin for several decades. All suggest provocative themes such as how sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom - the kingdom of machines - contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, seeded a need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a "personal postscript," Boorstin - winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize - gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and celebrates the amateur spirit in the writing of history.
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Average Customer Review: 5 of 5
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN: 0-7861-0671-9
Audio Length: 6 hours
Other audio books by Daniel J. Boorstin:
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
The Image: A Guide to Psuedo Events in America (Unabridged)
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