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Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) - Hardcover
Examines the role of public libraries during a time of national anxiety
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"This book is alive with the voices of oral interviews and a density of wonderful details relating to rural Wisconsin's encounter with modern print culture. . . . Though the book is a case study, its recourse to multiple layers of analysis and its comprehensive attention to the lived experience of individual readers and workers will be of wide significance, helping scholars and students of the book to think more fully about their objects of study and the questions they bring to them." -- Thomas Augst
About the Author:
Christine Pawley is director of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison and director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. She is author of Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa, which won the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award of the State Historical Society of Iowa.
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- PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1558498214
- ISBN 13 9781558498211
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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