This book is a genealogical record of the Borntrager family, focusing on the descendants of Daniel J. Borntrager. Written by Sam Rudolf Borntrager, it provides a detailed account of the family's origins and lineage, as well as their notable achievements and contributions to society. The book includes photographs and other illustrations, as well as extensive appendices containing additional information on related families and individuals.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
What does it mean to be American? Daniel J. Boorstin, one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, spent a lifetime pondering that question. And many people thought he came as close as anyone to providing answers that captured the nuances of that existential question. But as his son, novelist and filmmaker Jon Boorstin, reveals in The American, the nation's story--and his father's story--is far more complicated. As the twelfth Librarian of Congress and University of Chicago professor, Boorstin won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for the half-million words he wrote about being American and authored another trilogy about the history of humanity (The Discoverers, The Creators, and The Seekers). Yet he wrote just nine pages about himself. While his histories were embraced by readers for his celebration of frontier optimism and America's infinite capacity for hope, his own story suggests a more complicated truth--about humanity and America. In searching for the America that shaped Daniel J. Boorstin, Jon confronts the story Daniel never told. A true story about fathers and sons, about Jews and race, and the price of becoming an American. Daniel grew up living the kind of history he didn't write about. His father, Sam, was a Jew from Georgia, a would-be Southern Gentleman and good friend and legal counsel to Leo Frank, who was lynched in America's most notorious antisemitic incident. Sam fled Atlanta with his family to another unlikely Jewish home: Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was then just becoming the self-proclaimed oil capital of the world. There Sam lived through the infamous Tulsa Massacre in 1921. Jon describes how despite these tragedies, Sam Boorstin's booster spirit and his idiosyncratic morality combined to shape Daniel's gilded views of America and Americans. Jon also explores his father's lifelong friendship with distinguished Black historian, John Hope Franklin, a fellow Tulsan. Both of whom were unwavering proponents of the American Dream in the face of extraordinary prejudice. Part biography, part family history, and a crucial extension of his father's work, Jon Boorstin illuminates what we might learn from what was left out. And how, during another challenging time for America, we may renew our own faith in the future.
Daniel and Andrew and the Path to Perkins is the 3rd and final book in the Big Dan Runs the Marathon series. It tells the story of the boys and their journey to the Perkins School for the Blind.
Many years ago, in a poetry class for beginners, I read one of my early efforts which contained the following three lines: "A young poet drops his pen, astonished / by the twenty lines he has just written, / certain it is the Poem of Total Realization." The teacher smiled and said, "I remember thinking I had written that poem when I was sixteen." What we learn from writing poems over a long expanse of time is that each one takes further along the path of our daily life, leading eventually to whatever fulfills our existence. Each poem illuminates for its moment the darkness surrounding us, and in that light we can see the World in its glory or, sadly, in its degradation. Finally, we will carry within, not only the poem as a piece of literature but also the emotional growth it promotes. DJ Brick] ***Nature is wild and eagles and wolves will never be lovers. But certainly Poetry can overcome every obstacle and translates our dreams, desires, passions.. in images that evoke even a new, different Universe. Furthermore, Poetry is such a powerful tool: violence can kill, of course, but Words are stronger. Thus, Ideals/Values will be the final winner, because they can speak directly to hearts and minds - and touching them deeply, they can profoundly change a human being - Even the whole Humankind F. Frosini] ***In the arts repetition is the path of mastery. John Gielgud is said to have performed the role of Hamlet more than any actor in history. Only his innate modesty and respect for Shakespeare's genius kept him from claiming he had mastered the role. Those who witnessed his stage performances several times readily called him the master. A pianist of the caliber of Glenn Gould achieves greatness by rehearsing 'The Goldberg Variations' over and over, performing them again and again, continually discovering new details for each new performance. And the venerable Robert Frost was still reciting from memory poems he had written just before World War I in the 1960s and still charming audiences who knew them almost as well as he did. DJ Brick] ***Stating that our human nature is evil, would not be acceptable at all. Yet, it is beyond doubt that we humans are capable of behaving much and much worse than the most ferocious beasts, when our mental inhibitory-control fails to curb the worst and most pressing impulses. Nowadays, the rise of mass media has changed the way societies think and, unfortunately, exploiting mass psychology has become a lucrative affair for many. Politicians and CEOs of large corporations, in particular, know very well how to manipulate the masses, and in doing so, they can profoundly change our societies -our lives. Above all, through an increase in social inequality. And failing to deal with inequalities only leads to a rise of political extremes. F. Frosini]
Nature is wild and eagles and wolves will never be lovers. But certainly Poetry can overcome every obstacle and translates our dreams, desires, passions, .. in images that evoke even a new, different Universe It fulfills the very nature of poetry that we 7 poets publish our poems in a common anthology and witness how these diverse poems reflect each other, relate to each other, amplify each other This Anthology of Poetry collects 72 poems from 7 Authors living in 7 different Countries of the World. As Fabrizio Frosini puts it: When I first proposed this idea for a book to my Minnesotan friend Daniel Brick, we decided together to open it to other "voices of poetry" from different parts of our troubled world. Maybe we put it a bit too emphatically, like "voices of poetry conveying the joy of creativity," to point out the real issues of human passions mediated through poetry. Yet, Poetry is a sum of hope and despair. It is a sum of wishes, hopes, dreams, inspirations, wanderings on the wings of Imagination. It is a long flight our hearts and minds took, revisiting reality, memories, expectations. Life itself is revisited through the multicolored glasses of poetry. As Dylan Thomas wrote: "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man" and, I add, they are written out of the joy of creativity, even when created in the darkest moments of despairing depression. Everyone who reads our poetry enters our own Universe -even if for a while. Through Poetry, we all -Authors and Readers- are in touch.
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![Family Record of Daniel J. Borntrager and the Decendants [sic] ... by Sam R., Wife Lizzie, and Son Rudy Borntrager.](/covers/9781019361788.jpg)
