Daniel Boorstin

(1914 - 2004)

Inspired by the presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Daniel Boorstin wrote his work of sociology The Image, in which he invented the term “pseudo-event” to describe incidents staged solely for the sake of publicity. He received a Pulitzer Prize for The Democratic Experience in 1974, accepting the following year the post of the Librarian of Congress, which he held until 1987.