A book review from The Movie Snob:

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World (1998). I had never read or even heard of Daniel Boorstin until I came across this book and another by him called The Discoverers at a used-book store. (Apparently he has written a bunch of books and won a Pulitzer Prize. Go figure.) The Seekers is sort of a "who’s who" of philosophers and religious leaders in the Western Tradition. Although the writing is fine, the substance is a pretty thin gruel. For example, he covers the thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in 50 pages. Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin collectively get 12 pages; Descartes gets 10; Aquinas gets 6. So if you are already familiar with these thinkers, Boorstin doesn’t have the space to tell you anything you don’t already know, and if you aren’t, you won’t learn much here. Still, it wasn’t a bad way to spend a few hours, and I did learn a little bit about a few late historical figures that I had heard little or nothing about before. In short, it makes for a decent diversion at the airport or anyplace you have a few minutes to kill, but it’s not really a book to sit down and ponder.