He graduated with highest honors ( summa cum laude) from Harvard in 1934, then studied at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving BA and BCL degrees.
Īlthough Samuel wanted his son to go to the University of Oklahoma, become an attorney and join his own law firm, Daniel wanted to go to Harvard Law School. He graduated from Tulsa's Central High School in 1930, at the age of 15. After Frank's 1915 lynching led to a surge of anti-Semitic sentiment in Georgia, the family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Boorstin was raised. His father, Samuel, was a lawyer who participated in the defense of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent who was accused and convicted of the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl. Biography īoorstin was born in 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia, into a Jewish family. Boorstin especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story.
His writings were often seen, along with those of historians such as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter, as belonging to the "consensus school", which emphasized the unity of the American people and downplayed class and social conflict. He argued in The Genius of American Politics (1953) that ideology, propaganda, and political theory are foreign to America. Repudiating his youthful membership in the Communist Party, Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent exponent of consensus history. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. Daniel Joseph Boorstin (Octo– February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history.
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