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Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected Book

Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
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Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected, The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation a, Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
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  • Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
  • Written by author Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 6/1/2011
  • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation a
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Foreword
I Realms of Discovery
1 The Age of Negative Discovery 3
2 The Cultures of Pride and Awe 18
3 An Odd Couple: Discoverers and Inventors 31
II Trials of Conscience
4 The Writer as Conscience of the World 41
5 Our Conscience-Wracked Nation 53
III New-World Opportunities
6 Printing and the Constitution 63
7 Roles of the President's House 74
8 The Making of a Capitol 86
9 An Un-American Capital 97
IV The Cautionary Science
10 Tocqueville's America 107
11 Custine's Russia 113
V The Fourth Kingdom
12 Darwinian Expectations 125
13 Statistical Expectations 141
14 Artificial Selection 158
15 The Great Separation 170
VI A Personal Postscript
16 My Father, Lawyer Sam Boorstin 181
17 Land of the Unexpected 191
Acknowledgments 201
Index 203


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