Daniel Boorstin, 89.
The historian who brought the world’s attention to the pseudo-event died this past weekend. Daniel Boorstin was 89. (*) (†)
I read Boorstin’s book, the Image, in high school and was much affected by it. Boorstin was properly intolerant of phoniness in politics and society. He upbraided the press corps for keeping the American public unaware for years that President Franklin Roosevelt sat in a wheelchair.
Some would term Boorstin a conservative, but an intellectual firmly grounded in reality as he was is a thinker whose thoughts are beneficial to all.