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Title: If only there were more fire
Review: Boorstin is well- intentioned, serious, tremendously knowledgable. He knows how to choose interesting topics for his work. A history of the heroes of the imagination sounds extremely interesting. The problem is that Boorstin writes with a dry flatness perhaps better suited to chronicling minor inventions of Americans changing everyday life, than great geniuses. I truly looked forward to this work but read it with a certain disappointment. And this when I admire Boorstin and know him to be one of the finest American historians.
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