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Daniel J. Boorstin

1914 - 2004

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Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel J. Boorstin has received more than 387,366 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel J. Boorstin is the 434th most popular historian (down from 312th in 2019), the 7,080th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,422nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Historian.

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  • 47.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 434 out of 561. Before him are Andreas Maislinger, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Léon Gautier, William Mitchell Ramsay, Frances Yates, and Américo Castro. After him are Michael Panaretos, Martin Noth, H. A. R. Gibb, George Finlay, Aron Gurevich, and Robert Jay Lifton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 288. Before him are John Hersey, František Čapek, Martí de Riquer i Morera, Viljo Heino, Jack LaLanne, and Anna Maria Ortese. After him are William Gibson, Béatrix Beck, Qin Jiwei, Edgar Reinhardt, Astrid Henning-Jensen, and Élie Bayol. Among people deceased in 2004, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 229. Before him are András Toma, Shirley Strickland, Michel Colombier, Neil Campbell, Marvin Heemeyer, and David Reimer. After him are Anna Lee, Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, André Hazes, Tom Turesson, Albert Mol, and Zurab Sakandelidze.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 7,080 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul McCarthy (1945), Sherrill Milnes (1935), Carolyn Porco (1953), Gavin Newsom (1967), Julius Katchen (1926), and Chuck McCann (1934). After him are William Gibson (1914), Maud Wagner (1877), Greg Germann (1958), William M. Tweed (1823), Walter Block (1941), and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Daniel J. Boorstin ranks 26. Before him are Stanley G. Payne (1934), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Richard N. Frye (1920), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), and Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906). After him are Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Charles A. Beard (1874), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Rudolph Rummel (1932), and Christopher Browning (1944).

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