Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian Dies

It's really quite amazing how many fantastic history books Daniel J. Boorstin has written. Perhaps his most famous was his comprehensive book trilogy, The Americas, for which Boorstin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for the third in the series, The Americas: The Democratic Experience. However, Boorstin wrote about twenty additional history books, including one of my favorites, The Discoverers. In addition to writing, Boorstin also served as the librarian of the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1986. On Saturday, February 28, Daniel Boorstin passed away at age 89.