The Image

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1962. I came across this book while recently browsing the American history section of the Canisius College Library. Browsing a library is becoming a lost art. So I came across this book and picked it up. I had read some of Boorstin's American history books over the years but not in a long time.

I finished this today and enjoyed it's perspective of it's time although I did skip over a few spots here and there which I don't usually do but some of this content was dated although interesting. I especially liked his views on some of the early concepts of American culture that we take for granted today but were relatively new when he was writing. Things like advertising, mass media, travel agencies, reader's digest, political polling, changes in technology, etc.