| International Standard Book Number |
9780197861257 electronic publication
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780197861240 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0197861245 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Manning, Molly Guptill, 1980- author.
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| Title Statement |
A librarian's war : the man who fought World War II with books and brought the joy of reading to millions / Molly Guptill Manning.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Children of the night -- Now or never -- Books are what we want -- Moving literary mountains -- Pass the paper -- Go small or stay home -- Roads paved in books -- Tell them to stuff it -- Temporary widow -- Fighting your war -- A job well done -- Finding his way -- Back into the field -- New frontiers -- The forgotten readers
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A Librarian's War is a biography of Ray Trautman, whose childhood in a rural town with no library and few books ignited a lifelong passion to ensure no one would struggle as he did to access reading materials. He nurtured his love of books as a bookseller, librarian, literacy educator, Army officer, and professor. During World War II, he distributed hundreds of millions of books and magazines to troops despite book bans and resistant generals. After the war, he helped improve rural library access, built recreational libraries in prisons, worked to improve literacy for adults, and campaigned for more and better titles for the visually impaired. Through his efforts, the book-reading population skyrocketed and generations of Americans discovered the joy of reading"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Trautman, Raymond L.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
United States. Army Officers.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
United States. War Department. Library.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
Council on Books in Wartime.
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| Subject-Title |
Armed Services editions (Series)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Librarians United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Libraries.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Soldiers Services for United States.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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