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Author Pawley, Christine, 1945- author.

Title Reading places : literacy, democracy, and the public library in Cold War America / Christine Pawley
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Door-Kewaunee Regional Library -- History
SUBJECT Door-Kewaunee Regional Library fast
Subject 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Books and reading
Libraries and community
Public libraries
Rural libraries
United States
Wisconsin -- Door County
Wisconsin -- Kewaunee County
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613760574
1613760574