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008			050422s2005 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2005046164
020			_a0060593237 (hc : acidfree paper)
020			_a9780060593230
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm60321337
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050	0	0	_aZ1035.A1 _bB15 2005
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100	1		_aPonniah, Thomas, _d1966- _912138
245	1	0	_aEvery book its reader : _bthe power of the printed word to stir the world / _cNicholas A. Basbanes.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _cc2005.
300			_axviii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-343) and index.
520			_aIn celebration of five eventful centuries of the printed word, Basbanes considers of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of influential people. Basbanes asks what we can know about such figures as Milton, Gibbon, Locke, Newton, Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller--even the Marquis de Sade and Hitler--by knowing what they read. He shows how books that these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer clues to the development of their thought. He then profiles some of the most articulate readers of our time, who discuss such concepts as literary canons, classic works in translation, the timelessness of poetry, the formation of sacred texts, and the power of literature to train physicians, nurture children, and rehabilitate criminal offenders.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aBest books.
650		0	_aBooks and reading.
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