Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

Acknowledgments

, acknoWLEdgmEnts Likeanyhistorian,ioweagreatdealtolibrarians,especiallythoseatarizona state university, the columbia rare Books and manuscripts Library, the harry ransom humanities research Library, and the Library of congress. i am also grateful to supportive colleagues at arizona state university and to my students, especially my research assistant, paul tsimahides. most of all, i wish to thank my friends and colleagues in the society for the history of authorship, reading and publishing, whose creative work and varying approaches to the history of the book have informed and inspired my own thinking. xi , Expan ing t h E a m E r i c a n m i n d d ...