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261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Children of the night -- Now or never -- Books are what we want -- Moving literary mountains -- Pass the paper -- Go small or stay home -- Roads paved in books -- Tell them to stuff it -- Temporary widow -- Fighting your war -- A job well done -- Finding his way -- Back into the field -- New frontiers -- The forgotten readers
"A Librarian's War is a biography of Ray Trautman, whose childhood in a rural town with no library and few books ignited a lifelong passion to ensure no one would struggle as he did to access reading materials. He nurtured his love of books as a bookseller, librarian, literacy educator, Army officer, and professor. During World War II, he distributed hundreds of millions of books and magazines to troops despite book bans and resistant generals. After the war, he helped improve rural library access, built recreational libraries in prisons, worked to improve literacy for adults, and campaigned for more and better titles for the visually impaired. Through his efforts, the book-reading population skyrocketed and generations of Americans discovered the joy of reading"--