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PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE
By: Scott Sherman
Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library
Melville House
July 2015
On Sale: June 23, 2015
ISBN: 161219429X
EAN: 9781612194295
Kindle: B00SPV9B9C
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Non-Fiction
A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the peopleβs interestsβby 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 Cityβs most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library.
In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the libraryβs 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 Yorkβs Mayor Bloomberg would get what they wanted.
But when the story broke, the people fought back, as famous writers, professors, and citizensβ 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 libraryβs secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - June 24, 2015
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