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By Scott Sherman

A riveting research of a liked library stuck within the crosshairs of actual property, strength, and the people's interests--by the reporter who broke the story

In a chain of canopy tales for The Nation journal, journalist Scott Sherman exposed the ways that Wall road good judgment virtually took down considered one of ny City's so much loved and iconic associations: the recent York Public Library.

within the years previous the 2008 monetary concern, the library's leaders cast an audacious plan to unload a number of department libraries, mutilate a old construction, and ship hundreds of thousands of books to a garage facility in New Jersey. students, researchers, and readers will be out of good fortune, yet actual property builders and New York's Mayor Bloomberg could get what they wanted.

but if the tale broke, the folk fought again, as recognized writers, professors, and citizens' teams got here jointly to protect a countrywide treasure.

wealthy with revealing interviews with key figures, Patience and Fortitude is straight away a highly readable historical past of the library's mystery plans, and a stirring account of a unprecedented triumph opposed to the forces of cash and power.

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