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Cover of: Cleopatra's Nose by Daniel J. Boorstin
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Cover of: Cleopatra's nose by Daniel J. Boorstin

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  • Editor
    Ruth F. Boorstin

Cleopatra's nose
essays on the unexpected
1st trade ed.
Daniel J. Boorstin ; edited by Ruth F. Boorstin.

Published 1994 by Random House in New York .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

I. Realms of discovery
1 The age of negative discovery 3
2 The cultures of pride and awe 18
3 An odd couple: discoverers and inventors 31
II. Trials of conscience
4 The writer as conscience of the world 41
5 Our conscience-wracked nation 53
III. New-world opportunities
6 Printing and the Constitution 63
7 Roles of the president's house 74
8 The making of a capitol 86
9 An un-American capital 97
IV. The cautionary science
10 Tocqueville's America 107
11 Custine's Russia 113
V. The fourth kingdom
12 Darwinian expectations 125
13 Statistical expectations 141
14 Artificial selection 158
15 The great separation 170
VI. A personal postscript
16 My father, lawyer Sam Boorstin 181
17 Land of the unexpected 191

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Copyright Date
1994

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909
Library of Congress
CB358 .B63 1994

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 210 p.
Number of pages
210
Dimensions
9.5 x 6.5 x 0.90 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1077851M
ISBN 10
0679435050
LC Control Number
94001079
Library Thing
194682
Goodreads
1578203

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December 22, 2011 Edited by ImportBot import new book
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Initial record created, from Scriblio MARC record.