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- catalog abstract "This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom - the kingdom of machines - contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, created the need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a "personal postscript," Boorstin gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and optimistically celebrates the United States as the Land of the Unexpected.".
- catalog contributor b6778441.
- catalog contributor b6778442.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Realms of discovery: The age of negative discovery -- The cultures of pride and awe -- An odd couple: discoverers and inventors -- 2. Trials of conscience: The writer as conscience of the world -- Our conscience-wracked nation -- 3. New-world opportunities: Printing and the Constitution -- Roles of the president's house -- The making of a capitol -- An un-American capital -- 4. The cautionary science: Tocqueville's America -- Custine's Russia -- 4. The fourth kingdom: Darwinian expectations -- Statistical expectations -- Artificial selection -- The great separation -- 6. A personal postscript: My father, lawyer Sam Boorstin -- Land of the unexpected.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom - the kingdom of machines - contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, created the need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a "personal postscript," Boorstin gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and optimistically celebrates the United States as the Land of the Unexpected.".
- catalog extent "xii, 210 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Cleopatra's nose.".
- catalog identifier "0679435050 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cleopatra's nose.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Cleopatra's nose.".
- catalog subject "909 20".
- catalog subject "CB358 .B63 1994".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Modern History.".
- catalog subject "Science History.".
- catalog subject "Science and civilization.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Realms of discovery: The age of negative discovery -- The cultures of pride and awe -- An odd couple: discoverers and inventors -- 2. Trials of conscience: The writer as conscience of the world -- Our conscience-wracked nation -- 3. New-world opportunities: Printing and the Constitution -- Roles of the president's house -- The making of a capitol -- An un-American capital -- 4. The cautionary science: Tocqueville's America -- Custine's Russia -- 4. The fourth kingdom: Darwinian expectations -- Statistical expectations -- Artificial selection -- The great separation -- 6. A personal postscript: My father, lawyer Sam Boorstin -- Land of the unexpected.".
- catalog title "Cleopatra's nose : essays on the unexpected / by Daniel J. Boorstin ; edited by Ruth F. Boorstin.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".