6 edition of Arsenals Of A Democratic Culture found in the catalog.
Published
March 15, 2007
by Ditzion Press
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Written in
| The Physical Object | |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 276 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL11679979M |
| ISBN 10 | 1406752789 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781406752786 |
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Cited in Sidney Ditzion, Arsenals of a Democratic Culture, (Chicago, IL: ALA, ): p. 75– “Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of “public judgment” among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics.
"Wiegand challenges conventional interpretations of the role of public libraries in the community as 'arsenals of a democratic culture,' asserting instead that libraries served as 'uniquely negotiated cultural centers' that reinforced social cohesion, values, and taste at the local level.
The title to The Arsenal of Democracy is a bit misleading as it seems to imply that the book is about the war production effort in general, when really it focuses narrowly on Ford.
The subtitle is also misleading, in that it seems to imply the book will be about FDR, which it is Between The Arsenal of Democracy and Go Like Hell, A.J. Baime has /5. The Friends of the New Hanover County Public Library is a non-profit organization with hundreds of members.
We celebrate 42 years of advocacy for, support of, and service to our local public library because "libraries are essential to the functioning of a democratic society and are the great symbols of the freedom of the mind."*.
racy. InSidney Ditzion published Arsenals of a Democratic Culture (ALA), which was among the first books to address the foundations of the rela-tionship between libraries and democracy. Almost fifty years later, Arthur Hafner included a chapter on democratic ideals in his book Democracy and the Public Library (Greenwood, ).
The book offers a wide-ranging narrative of what happened in one part of the world, but because its scope is restricted by its reliance on the outdated notion of the West, the full story of today.
Until the early s, library historians tended to see public libraries in the U.S. as "Arsenals of a Democratic Culture," as Sidney Ditzion's book title put it, whose founders and administrators were fueled by a humanitarian concern for the underprivileged.
Freedom's Forge book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the pr /5.
Arsenals of a Democratic Culture (American Library Association, ). Fultz, Michael. "Black Public Libraries in the South in the Era of De Jure Segregation" Libraries & the Cultural Record ().
41(3), – Garrison, Dee. Apostles of culture: the public librarian and American society, – (New York: Free Press, ). Grimes. Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures.
Some see the field as a subset of information history Library history is an academic discipline and should not be confused with its object of study (history of libraries): the discipline is much younger than the libraries.
Review by Robert Letovsky, PhD. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War.” By A.J. Baime. A.J. Baime, an automotive writer for The Wall Street Journal, sets several ambitious goals for his book “The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War.”.
The Arsenal of Democracy focuses in on just one producer and one product; all others mentioned are minimal. That producer is the Ford Motor Company and the product the B Liberators. The book opens to a history of Henry Ford, the foundation of his company, and its pre-war history.
Arsenal of Democracy is an engaging portrait of what was arguably the auto industry's 'finest hour.' – Robert Casey, retired curator of transportation, Henry Ford Museum The book clearly shows the enormous impact of WWII and the auto industry's essential role.
Arsenals of a Democratic Culture: A Social History of the Amnerican Public were conceived as "Arsenals of Democracy," or were the result of "Demo-cratic Strivings," appears to be weakened.
Credit is given to the leaders who were active in the founding of individual BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES W. The. Bucknell University Author: Allan G. Halline. Yet despite his rhetoric, one of Mr. Reagan’s first overtures was a proposal to cut nuclear arsenals by 33 percent — a move Moscow rejected.
(In .The Set-Up. Ron Swanson believed that the less he knew about other people's issues, the happier things are.
But as much as we love Mr. Swanson, U.S. citizens couldn't just ignore what was happening in Europe (*cough* WWII *cough*).
So FDR found a compromise: the best way to help wasn't to send troops overseas, but to mobilize American industry to produce the .
