An Application from Professor X.
This man wrote a satirical funding proposal about a system of Ethnic Proportionalism, in which each citizen has an Ethnic Quotient and a Merit Quotient, in The Sociology of the Absurd: An Application from Professor X. This man was valedictorian of the white school system in Tulsa a year before John Hope Franklin, his supervisor at UChicago, was valedictorian of its black high school. In one book, this "consensus school" historian wrote that "A celebrity is a person who is well-known for their well-knownness." This man opened one (*) trilogy with a book on "Man's Search To Know The World And Himself." In a 1962 book, he wrote that press conferences, political debates, and the like are "pseudo-events" staged by news media so as to have something to report on. For 10 points, name this author of The Image, a sometime Librarian of Congress who also wrote The Discoverers and the Americans trilogy.
This man wrote a satirical funding proposal about a system of Ethnic Proportionalism, in which each citizen has an Ethnic Quotient and a Merit Quotient, in The Sociology of the Absurd:
Daniel Boorstin