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Article: Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good.(Book review)
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- Libraries and the Cultural Record
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- March 22, 2008
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Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education, and the Public Good. By Ed D' Angelo. Duluth, Minn.: Library Juice Press, 2006. xiv, 127 pp. $18.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-9778617-1-2.
Many readers of Ed D' Angelo's thought-provoking and very readable book,. Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library, will come away with a newfound commitment to saving the ailing American public library. Some will disagree with the book's critiques of popular culture. And most will wish for more information from this book, which asserts the public library's fundamental importance to democracy but discusses the ...
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