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Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library / Scott Sherman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2015]Description: xvii, 205 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 161219429X (hardback)
  • 9781612194295 (hardback)
Subject(s):
Contents:
"There will never be an end to this library" -- "A great work" -- Decay and renewal -- "The greatest project ever" -- Hubris and corporate logic -- An invitation to act -- "I will raise the money" -- "Don't gut our lions" -- "The wrong plan."
Summary: "A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests--by the reporter who broke the story. In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library's leaders forged an audacious plan to sell off multiple branch libraries, mutilate a historic building, and send millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey. Scholars, researchers, and readers would be out of luck, but real estate developers and New York's Mayor Bloomberg would get what they wanted. But when the story broke, the people fought back, as famous writers, professors, and citizens' groups came together to defend a national treasure. Rich with revealing interviews with key figures, Patience and Fortitude is at once a hugely readable history of the library's secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: Books about Libraries for Adults
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 027.4747 S553 Available 33111008037422
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In a series of award-winning cover stories for The Nation magazine, investigative reporter Scott Sherman was the first reporter to cast doubt on the New York Public Library's controversial £350 renovation plan. He found the story about a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power and the people's interests. Here Sherman presents a new investigation, a news-breaking account of the New York Public Library's entanglements with money, power and big real estate.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190) and index.

"There will never be an end to this library" -- "A great work" -- Decay and renewal -- "The greatest project ever" -- Hubris and corporate logic -- An invitation to act -- "I will raise the money" -- "Don't gut our lions" -- "The wrong plan."

"A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests--by the reporter who broke the story. In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library's leaders forged an audacious plan to sell off multiple branch libraries, mutilate a historic building, and send millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey. Scholars, researchers, and readers would be out of luck, but real estate developers and New York's Mayor Bloomberg would get what they wanted. But when the story broke, the people fought back, as famous writers, professors, and citizens' groups came together to defend a national treasure. Rich with revealing interviews with key figures, Patience and Fortitude is at once a hugely readable history of the library's secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power"-- Provided by publisher.

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