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Author Pawley, Christine, 1945-

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

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
text file
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.
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Subject Door-Kewaunee Regional Library -- History.
Door-Kewaunee Regional Library.
History.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- 20th century.
Public libraries.
Wisconsin -- Door County.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County -- History -- 20th century.
Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County.
Rural libraries -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- 20th century.
Rural libraries.
Rural libraries -- Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading.
Books and reading -- Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County -- History -- 20th century.
Libraries and community -- United States -- Case studies.
Libraries and community.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Cold War.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Pawley, Christine, 1945- Reading places. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010008807 (OCoLC)475454160
ISBN 9781613760574 (electronic book)
1613760574 (electronic book)
9781558498211 (library cloth ; alkaline paper)
1558498214 (library cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781558498228 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1558498222 (paperback ; alkaline paper)