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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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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. 193 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover.
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