Parisian, Catherine M. The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue. (Penn State Series in the History of the Book.) University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press for the Bibliographical Society of America and the National First Ladies’ Library, 2010. xvi, 398 pp. Illus. Cloth, $55.00 (isbn 978-0-271-03713-4).

2011 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-112
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Richards
Keyword(s):  
History Of The Book ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
First Ladies ◽  
White House ◽  
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Annotated Catalogue

scholarly journals Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. Ed. Charles Walton. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xvii, 244p. ISBN 978-0-271-05012-6. $49.95

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-207
Author(s):  
Greg Matthews
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Social History ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social ◽  
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History Of

Appearing as a title in the Penn State Series in the History of the Book, Into Print is a collection of twelve essays demonstrating a debt to Robert Darnton’s ground-breaking scholarship on the social history of ideas (Walton, vii; Pasta, 82). Divided into five thematic parts (“Making News,” “Print, Paper, Markets, and States,” “Police and Opinion,” “Enlightenment in Revolution,” and “Enlightenment Universalism and Cultural Difference”), it includes contributions from scholars, primarily historians, who studied under Darnton. Editor Charles Walton points out in his superb preface that, while topics covered are diverse, each essay exhibits Darnton’s influence by “analyzing the dynamic . . .

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