Wednesday, July 27

I recently came across two finds during my used book hunts.  Daniel J. Boorstin’s, The Discovers and The Creators, each were a dollar!  While paying for the second one, the cashier said she had been on a cruise with him and his wife when they were aboard lecturing on American history.  She got to know them pretty well as she was the Speaker Coordinator.  Boorstin has one of my favorite bios of which I am envious:  Harvard graduate with highest honors; Yale doctorate; Oxford Rhodes Scholar; admitted as a barrister-at-law in London and member of the Massachusetts bar; a visiting professor at the University of Rome; …wait for it, yes, Paris is next… the first incumbent of a chair in American history at the Sorbonne; and Librarian of Congress.