An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During World War I

by Wayne A. Wiegand

This study effectively addresses the question: What was the involvement of the American public library community in The Great War? A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of public library history prior to World War I, touching on such topics as the growth of the public library from the genteel, early nineteenth-century social libraries of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states and the founding of the American Library Association in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313267022
• ISBN13: 9780313267024
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.5"