Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library

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Label

Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library

Title remainder

power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library

Statement of responsibility

Scott Sherman

Creator

• Sherman, Scott, (Scott G)

Subject

• Finance
• Historic preservation -- Citizen participation
• Historic preservation -- New York (State) | New York -- Citizen participation
• History
• Library buildings -- Remodeling
• Library buildings -- Remodeling -- New York (State) | New York
• Management
• New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York Public Library
• New York Public Library -- Administration
• Buildings
• New York Public Library -- Finance
• New York Public Library -- History
• New York Public Library -- Public opinion
• Politics and government
• Public opinion
• Public opinion -- New York (State) | New York
• Since 1951
• Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (New York, N.Y.)
• Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (New York, N.Y.) -- Public opinion
• New York Public Library -- Buildings

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests--by the reporter who broke the story. In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library's leaders forged an audacious plan to sell off multiple branch libraries, mutilate a historic building, and send millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey. Scholars, researchers, and readers would be out of luck, but real estate developers and New York's Mayor Bloomberg would get what they wanted. But when the story broke, the people fought back, as famous writers, professors, and citizens' groups came together to defend a national treasure. Rich with revealing interviews with key figures, Patience and Fortitude is at once a hugely readable history of the library's secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

027.4747

Index

index present

LC call number

Z733.N6

LC item number

S54 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography