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Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a compilation of essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Daniel Boorstin for several decades. All suggest provocative themes such as 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, seeded 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.

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