Burning the Books

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Burning the Books is written by Richard Ovenden and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674249488 (ISBN 10) and 9780674249486 (ISBN 13).

Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend; no wonder they are so often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge—from library burnings to digital attacks and contemporary underfunding—and makes a passionate plea for the importance of these threatened institutions.