Authors: Stuart A. P. Murray
ISBN-13: 9781602397064, ISBN-10: 1602397066
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Date Published: July 2009
Edition: New Edition
Stuart A. P. Murray is the author of thirty-four books, including the award-winning America’s Song: The Story of “Yankee Doodle,” and books on the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Vietnam War. He lives in Petersburgh, NY.
Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of the bestselling book on book collecting, A Gentle Madness.
Through the ages, humanity has created, destroyed, rescued, neglected,
discovered, stolen, and cherished libraries—and no other institution so perfectly mirrors the human condition in any period of history.