Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914) began his career as a lawyer and legal historian. After graduating from Harvard, he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and studied at the Inner Temple in London.
He has taught legal history at Harvard and has been visiting professor of American history at the University of Rome in Italy, and at the Kyoto University in Japan.
He is at present a professor of American history at the University of Chicago.
His books include The Americans: The Colonial Experience (1958)
Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914) began his career as a lawyer and legal historian. After graduating from Harvard, he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and studied at the Inner Temple in London.
He has taught legal history at Harvard and has been visiting professor of American history at the University of Rome in Italy, and at the Kyoto University in Japan.
He is at present a professor of American history at the University of Chicago.
His books include The Americans: The Colonial Experience (1958)
The Genius of American Politics (1953),
and
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948).