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Widener: Biography of a Library.(Book review)
Widener: Biography of a Library. By Matthew Battles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi, 201 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01668-8.
In the preface of Widener: Biography of a Library Matthew Battles announces that "this is not a scholarly book" (x). Despite his accompanying caveat about his reliance on "personal intuition," it would be a cold scholar indeed who could not appreciate the book that follows: it is at heart an extended love letter to a library. There are few sentiments so widely shared among academics of every discipline as a love of libraries, and the author taps neatly into that vein of shared feeling to drive his treatment of the history of Harvard's most venerable library.
The book is divided into three sections. The first of these, "Decease Calls Me Forth," recounts the earliest history of the Widener, beginning with a…
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