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Author Pawley, Christine, 1945-

Title Reading places : literacy, democracy, and the public library in Cold War America / Christine Pawley.

Imprint Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  027.477562 P289r 2010    ---  Available
Description xiii, 325 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Literacy debates and dangers -- The geography of rural reading -- Reaching readers with the Wisconsin idea -- Reading : for whom, and what? -- Children, teachers, and the rural school -- What to read : children's choices -- Women, print, and domesticity -- Winners and losers : the referendum and its aftermath.
Subject Door-Kewaunee Regional Library -- History.
Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- 20th century.
Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County -- History -- 20th century.
Rural libraries -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- 20th century.
Rural libraries -- Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading -- Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County -- History -- 20th century.
Libraries and community -- United States -- Case studies.
Cold War.
ISBN 9781558498228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558498211 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558498214 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558498222 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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