@book{9830,
  author = {Carl Ostrowski},
  title = {Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861},
  year = {2004},
  pages = {261 pp.},
  publisher = {University of Massachusetts Press},
  address = {Amherst, MA},
  isbn = {9781558494336},
  note = {Received the 2007 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field.

Contents:
Books, classical republicanism, and proposals for a congressional library 
Madison's vision realized, 1800-1812 
Thomas Jefferson, George Watterston, and the library, 1814-1829 
Jacksonian democracy and the library, 1829-1843 
James Alfred Pearce, the Smithsonian Institution, and the question of a national library, 1844-1859 
Congressmen use their library, 1840-1859},
  language = {English},
}