{"product_id":"the-image-isbn-9780679741800","title":"The Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions is an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book that best explains Trump’s dominance may well have been published in 1962. In \u003ci\u003eThe Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America\u003c\/i\u003e, the historian Daniel J. Boorstin described the image as a medium—a photograph, a movie, a representation of life, laid out on pulp or screen—that becomes, soon enough, a habit of mind.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Boorstin’s book tells us how to see and listen, and how to think about what we see and hear.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eGeorge Will\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.”\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Daniel J. Boorstin's \u003ci\u003eThe Image\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A very informative and entertaining and chastising book.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHarper’s \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A book that everyone in America should read every few years. Stunning in its prescience, it explains virtually every aspect of our mass media's evolution and seductiveness.” \u003cbr\u003e—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Visit From the Goon Squad \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An engrossing book—sensitive, thoughtful, damning, dead on target and in most respects unanswerable.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Excellent. . . It is the book to end all books about ‘The American Image’—what it is, who projects it, what effect it has at home or abroad.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant and original essay about the black arts and corrupting influences of advertising and public relations.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Boorstin’s book tells us how to see and listen, and how to think about what we see and hear.”\u003cbr\u003e—George Will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Boorstin\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, a trilogy (\u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Experience; The National Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Democratic Experience)\u003c\/i\u003e that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.By the Author of The Creators Afterword by George F. Will","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300229959909,"sku":"NP9780679741800","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679741800.jpg?v=1767739908","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-image-isbn-9780679741800","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}