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Written by Daniel J. Boorstin - Audio book narrated by Noah Waterman - Unabridged Nonfiction - 5 CASSETTES

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (March 1995)

Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a compilation of essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Daniel Boorstin for several decades. Provocative themes all:

How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance.
What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World?
How has the fourth kingdom---the kingdom of machines---contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, seated a need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense?

In a "personal postscript," Boorstin-winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize-gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and celebrates the amateur spirit in the writing of history.