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Rent Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: Oct 1995
Genre: History - United States
Retail Price: $15.95
Pages: 224
Synopsis
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 and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.