![]() Riding high after winning the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for "The Americans: The Democratic Experience," Boorstin was senior historian at the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology when Gerald Ford tapped him for the Library post. "It might sound corny or pretentious," the librarian of Congress announces from behind a fortresslike desk in his Cleveland Park town house, "but I insisted on my right as a citizen and as a person to go on writing despite being the full-time librarian."Īfter nearly a decade in this role, Boorstin still lives in the shadow of criticism that he uses federal time and staff to write his award-winning books-a charge that surfaced during his controversial confirmation hearings in 1975. Boorstin wants you to know that he has written his latest epic-an acclaimed 745 page history of the world-in his spare time. ![]() BEFORE HE will tell you why there are 24 hours in a day or how Emperor Su Sung scheduled his 121 imperial bedmates during the Chou dynasty or any of the other "unnecessary facts whose discovery gives meaning to life," Daniel J. ![]()
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