Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library

Part of Our Lives

A People's History of the American Public Library

By
Wayne A. Wiegand
Wayne A. Wiegand
2015 • 317 pages

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45 books

Library Books

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Kinsey
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
Where are all the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia
Prejudices and Antipathies
Sorting Things Out
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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346 books

Nonfiction

BluebirdPI
Sarah
The Wave
Unfamiliar Fishes
Packing for Mars
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Kabul Beauty School
The Male Brain

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490 books

Social History

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Spiritomb
Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Spiritomb
Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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26 books

Libraries And Librarians

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Spiritomb
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
Read Dangerously
Cruising the library
Purity in Print
Imperiled Innocents
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library