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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition (1 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679741801
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679741800
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.3 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 207,354 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"An Engrossing Book -- Sensitive, Thoughtful, Damning, Dead On Target And In Most Respects Unanswerable."
-- Scientific American"entertaining, Acute, Stimulating, Timely, And Intelligent...A Brilliant Polemic About A Very Real Problem."
-- Saturday Review
"excellent...It Is The Book To End All Books About 'the American Image' -- What It Is, Who Projects It, What Effect It Has At Home Or Abroad." -- The Observer

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Discusses news gathering, celebrity, travel, prestige, and the American dream.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful critique of the nature of American society, 21 Sep 1998
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Never have I read a more honest and insightful evaluation of the weaknesses as well as strengths of American society. This book has changed the way I look at our world, and opened my eyes to the difference between what we are and what we pretend to be. No other book has made a larger impact on the enlightenment of my intellect in its striving to become aware of the difference between fact and truth.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant but long-winded, 24 Dec 1998
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I'm tempted to give this book 3*, because in my opinion any book worth its salt is efficient and readable, and something poorly written doesn't deserve 4*. However, the social commentary and insights are so brilliant and caustic that I have to give this 4*.

It provides excellent explanations for many of the phenomena so many complain about in modern society, and it is clear, accurate, and affecting. My gripe is that Boorstin makes some point in the first 3-4 pages of each chapter, then follows it with unnecessary examples. Unless you're obsesed with having everything restated and proved several times before you believe it, I advise you to read the first 4 pages of each chapter and then move on to the next-- literally. This book would be a lot shorter if it trusted itself a little-- the truths it reveals are intelligent and the reader identifies with them immediately, and the amount of proof and restatement provided is unnecessary.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing..., 31 Jul 1999
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Boorstin first published this prophetic book in 1962. What amazes me in particular is the accurate depiction of our current media and journalism. The truth is told (and most do not care much for that), that seems to warrant the degregation this book receives. Each of his points are well supported by fact and logic, not to mention appropiate historical events. This book is to me inspiring, a breath of fresh air. He doesn't blow wind in your face. Today history has turned into an anti-imperical nightmare of contradictions. With the slaughter of history by social theorists and humanitarians it is refreshing to read a bona fide historian again.

Thank you Daniel J Boorstin...for telling the truth.

Miss Courtney Payne

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1.0 out of 5 stars Utter distaste
This book might be great because it discusesses the problems in AMerica, but it offers no solutions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Boorstin work a cogent cultural analysis of today's society
Boorstin's work is an excellent and highly insightful analysis of current American culture; although first puplished in 1960s, it resonates with a wit and wisdom which is even... Read more
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