by Daniel J. Boorstin · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679722236
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«Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past» is Daniel J. Boorstin's collection of essays, published by Vintage Books in paperback (368 pp., in English).
Collection of 24 essays in five sections on the less visible history of the United States: portrays Paul Revere, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and analyzes phenomena such as the «therapy of distance» and the «law of survival of the unread», through the lens of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
The work was originally published in 1987; this Vintage Books edition is from 1989 and includes an index.
General reading for adults interested in US history and the historical essay.
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.
