Widener: Biography of a Library by Matthew Battles

Widener: Biography of a Library

Matthew Battles

224 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Wallace Stegner called its stacks "enchanted." Barbara Tuchman called it "my Archimedes bathtub, my burning bush." But to Thomas Wolfe, it was a place of "wilderment and despair." Since its opening in 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Librar...

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