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The image : a guide to pseudo-events in America
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- Creator
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Atheneum, 1971 1975 printing
- ©1961
- Series
- Physical Details
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- ix, 315 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0689702809, 9780689702808
- OCLC
- ocm03053003, ocm03053003
- First ed. published under title: The image; or, What happened to the American dream.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-294) and index.
- Extravagant expectations -- From news gathering to news making : a flood of pseudo-events -- From hero to celebrity : the human pseudo-event -- From traveler to tourist : the lost art of travel -- From shapes to shadows : dissolving forms -- From ideal to image : the search for self-fulfilling prophecies -- From the American dream to American illusions? The self-deceiving magic of prestige