The Library paradise

The Library paradiseA history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age Engaging [and] ambitious (The Washington Post) Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and childrens drawingsthe history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident. In The Library, historians

" —Adrian Tchaikovsky

Duberman has written a substantial new afterword that updates both his personal history and the ongoing struggle for a more just society

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National Book Award winner

Brilliantly witty

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An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain

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America now has more breweries than at any time since prohibition

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