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Irrepressible Reformer - Biography of Melvil Dewey (Hardcover, New)
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Irrepressible Reformer - Biography of Melvil Dewey (Hardcover, New)
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Drawing from rare archival materials researched over a period of 15
years, preeminent Dewey historian Wayne Wiegand has produced the
first frank and comprehensive biography of the man behind the Dewey
Decimal Classification System and scores of other enduring
achievements. Tracing Dewey's life and influences that shaped it,
""Irrepressible Reformer"" explores Dewey's ingenious enterprise as
a library innovator, New York State education official, and
business and resort operator - as well as those aspects many found
arrogant, manipulative, immoral and bigoted. The library world's
most famous figure, Dewey (1851-1931) copyrighted his Decimal
Classification System in 1876 as a young man at Amherst College.
After many editions, it is used today in more than 100,000
libraries worldwide. Organiser and first executive officer of the
American Library Association, he is credited as the father of
library education and of librarianship as a profession. In his
myriad activities in education, spelling and metric reform, state
politics and hostelry, Dewey crossed paths with Andrew Carnegie,
Teddy Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, and other giants of his era.
As New York State Regents Secretary, Dewey was a
turn-of-the-century educational reformer ahead of his time in
certification and extended learning. Wiegand gives a full account
of this period, which ended in a public dipsute over Dewey's
exclusionary treatment of Jews. ""Irrepressible Reformer"" explores
Dewey's further troubles with anti-Semitism and sexual harassment
as he built the Lake Placid Club in New York into a $15 million
property. ""Irrepressible Reformer"" suffers none of the restraints
of previous ""kinder, gentler"" biographical treatments, as it
reveals the enigmatic Dewey ""warts and all"". Yet, the
prize-winning author provides richer background on Dewey's positive
achievements than any work to date. A profound character study that
reads like a novel, ""Irrepressible Reformer"" should long serve
students and researchers in librarianship, education, New York
State history and American reform movements.
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