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"In her Foreword, Christine Pawley sums up the importance of Dee Garrison's book as follows: ""Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the first edition of Apostles of Culture appeared. Since no book-length study of the formation of the American public library has yet challenged Dee Garrison's 1979 analysis, it remains the most recent---and most-cited--- interpretation of the public library's past, a landmark in the history, and the historiography, of libraries and librarianship...For students and researchers who want to understand the development of a field that still suffers the status of the taken-for-granted, Apostles of Culture stands as a historical document. Its reissue allows its historiographical and political---as well as its historical---significance to be more fully appreciated."""

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This lucid social history of librarianship is a welcome addition to library history and the study of the role of women in librarianship. - Library Journal; Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the first edition of Apostles of Culture appeared. Since no book-length study of the formation of the American public library has yet challenged Dee Garrison's 1979 analysis, it remains the most recent - and most cited - interpretation of the public library's past, a landmark in the history, and the historiography, of libraries and librarianship. - Christine Pawley, from the foreword; An impressive book. - J. Stanley Lemons, Rhode Island College, Journal of American History

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Lora Dee Garrison is professor of history at Rutgers University and a 1995 recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant for Research and Writing in Peace, Security, and International Cooperation.

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