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Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861. By Carl Ostrowski. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. x, 261 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-433-2.)
This monograph by Carl Ostrowski analyzes the growth and development of the Library of Congress from its founding until the outbreak of the Civil War. First prepared as a dissertation at the University of South Carolina (1997), this study uses the emergent field of book history to analyze the library's slow evolution, and it studies the interplay of the nation's literary and political cultures in setting the context for that evolution. . . .
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