Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004)

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1. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries
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2. Will Durant

   Author of The Story of Philosophy, Our Oriental Heritage, The Lessons of History

3. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

4. Paul Johnson

   Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, History of Christianity, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830

5. William Manchester

   Author of A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

6. John Keegan

   Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare, The Mask of Command

7. Harold Bloom

   Author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, How to Read and Why, Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds

8. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

9. James Burke

   Author of Connections, The Day the Universe Changed, The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys

10. David McCullough

    Author of Truman, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

11. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought

12. Gordon S. Wood

    Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, The American Revolution; a History

13. Dumas Malone

    Author of The sage of Monticello, Jefferson and the Rights of Man : Jefferson and His Time Volume Two, Jefferson the President: Second Term 1805 - 1809 - Volume V (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 5)

14. Bernard Bailyn

    Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study

15. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Age of Reform

16. Simon Schama

    Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Rembrandt's eyes

17. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    Author of The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, Almanac of American History, The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III (The Age of Roosevelt)

18. Jacob Bronowski

    Author of The Ascent of Man, The Identity of Man

19. Franklin Escher, Jr.

    Author of The Story of the U.S.A.: Explorers And Settlers, The Story of the U.S.A.: A Young Nation Solves Its Problems

20. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of The Oxford History of the American People, Admiral of the Ocean Sea : a life of Christopher Columbus, The European discovery of America