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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Contributor(s): Baker, Nicholson (Author)

ISBN: 9780375726217

Publisher: Vintage

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Pub Date: April 9, 2002

Dewey: 025.2832

Lexile Code: 0000

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Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.81" H x 8.08" L x 5.28" W ( 0.78 lbs) 400 pages

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Description: From the bestselling author of "Vox" comes a devastating expose of the strip-mining of American paper history, motivated by an obsession with library shelf-space. With meticulous detective work and explanatory flair, "Double Fold" unfolds a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine.

Review Quotes: "Got me, as he intended, hopping mad. Bless his obsessive-compulsive heart."-David Gates, The New York Times Book Review

"There's no mistaking the passion and intelligence he brings to his task or the fiery zest with which he relays his most damning anecdotes." -Chicago Tribune

"Provocative . . . impassioned and compelling." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A magnificent crusade and he tells its story with a novelist's flair. . . . This book is a thumping indictment of America's great libraries. They have much to answer for" -Chicago Sun-Times

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