The hallowed chronicles of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the journey to presidential glory has never been a one-touch affair ...

A celebrity, said historian Daniel Boorstin, is someone known for his or her well-knownness. David H. Souter, who died on May 8 at 85, was the anti-celebrity. He came to ...

Is there a way out of the society of the spectacle? Can we reclaim direct experience in a world mediated by images? There are ...

He has a small but unusual cast of characters—two mainstream historians who taught at elite schools and straddled an intellectual but popular fence (Richard Hofstadter, Daniel J. Boorstin), and three ...

Daniel J. Boorstin wrote the book on this phenomenon in 1962, when the Borgias ruled D.C. In The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America, Boorstin identifies the nonevent as the ...

THE IMAGE (315 pp.)—Daniel J. Boorstin—Atheneum ($5). Ever since The Lonely Crowd (1950) proved there was big money in publishing serious sociology, the book trade has been gleefully exporting ...

George Will / Washington Post Historian Daniel J. Boorstin glimpsed the future in 1962. Forty-five years before the iPhone arrived, his book “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America ...

Historian Daniel J. Boorstin glimpsed the future in 1962. Forty-five years before the iPhone arrived, his book “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America” included a joke: A woman ...

THE NUMBERS of books, essays, seminars, conferences, and government and foundation grants exploring, and deploring, the ways our screens affect us does not equal the number of American screens.

In The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, the historian Daniel J. Boorstin described the image as a medium—a photograph, a movie, a representation of life, laid out on pulp or screen ...

THE AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstin. 517 pages. Random House. $8.95. “What then is the American, this new man?” Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville asked the question ...

They are pseudo-events, the historian Daniel J. Boorstin’s term for manufactured media spectacles that feel significant because we imbue them with significance. My opinion on this as a ...