This volume traces the development of the American Antiquarian Society library and the role its librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Published on the occasion of the Society's bicentennial, this unique, illustrated history is scholarly in purpose, rich in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail.
Readers will meet founder Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm. The author's guiding approach is finely focused on the Society's intellectual development as a cultural repository of extraordinary consequence, with careful attention given to the people who have shaped and nurtured it into the twenty-first century.
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454 pp. Hardcover, dust jacket
ISBN: 9781929545650
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