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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. cloth, dust jacket. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. [viii], 195 [1] pages. "In my view, if you're not an optimist, you have no business running a cultural institution in the first place." - from the Preface Growing Up Bookish is a collection of autobiographical essays that stand on their own but together form a professional memoir based on the author's work as a scholar and as a library and museum director. Richard Wendorf has been an innovative institutional leader ever since he took on his first professional directorship, at Harvard, in the late 1980s. In this lively and elegantly written memoir, he charts the unpredictable and often serendipitous ways in which he moved beyond his Midwestern upbringing and made his mark first as a student, then as a scholar and teacher, and finally as the director of three prestigious - and very different - institutions: the Houghton Library, the Boston Athenaeum, and the American Museum in Britain. Much of…
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Growing Up Bookish: An Anglo-American Memoir Other - 2017
by Richard Wendorf
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- Title Growing Up Bookish: An Anglo-American Memoir
- Author Richard Wendorf
- Binding Other
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware
- Date 2017
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- ISBN 9781584563587 / 1584563583
- Library of Congress subjects Scholars, Americans - England
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016041012
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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