The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”-events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported-and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold decept...