Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who served as the Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, was born on October 1, 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia but raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard College and receiving his doctorate from Yale University, Boostin attended Balliol College at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. At Balliol, Boostin won a "double first" in two law degrees and was admitted to the bar as a barrister at London's Inner Temple. He also was admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boorstin taught history at the University of Chicago for 25-years, where he held the chair as the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History. He also was a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Geneva, the University of Kyoto and the University of Puerto Rico. At the Sorbonne, Boorstin was the first holder of a chair in American History, while at Cambridge University, he served as