TY - SER
AU - Wayne Wiegand
CY - Chicago, IL
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
Part One Launching a "world work", 1851-1888 
Child of the burned over district, 1851-1876 
R" on a cufflink: early years
"Filling the vessel": Amherst College 
"In proper order": assistant librarian, Amherst College 
Creating bureaus and organizations, 1876-1879 
"Dui" in business for himself, 1879-1883
The readers and writers economy company 
The library bureau 
"To ride a fast or frisky horse": Columbia College, 1883-1888 
Librarian-in-chief 
A bootleg operation: the school of library economy 
An opposition forms 
Other interests, 1883-1888  

Part Two The Albany years, 1889-1906 
Jockeying for position: Regents' secretary, 1889-1892 
Entering a glass house with a plan 
Moving to implement an agenda 
Moving the university "out of innocuous desuetude", 1892-1898 
The University Law of 1892 and its impact 
Challenges to Dewey's power 
Overplaying politics, 1898-1899 
Pressure to unify 
Dewey's resignation as Regents' secretary 
Attending to library matters, 1889-1904 
Managing the New York State Library 
The New York Library School 
Unification 
Working with the American Library Association, 1889-1904 
Other interests, 1889-1910 
The Library Bureau 
Metric and spelling reform 
The Lake Placid Club 
"Jew Attack", 1905 
Disgraced and banished for his sins: Dewey's downfall, 1905-1906 
Resignation -- "The fairchild-lord plot" 

Part Three The Lake Placid years, 1906-1931 
Building an efficient WASP's nest, 1906-1925 
"Wheels within wheels": Expanding the physical plant and debt 
Club successes and the Lake Placid Education Foundation 
Trouble in paradise, 1926-1931 
Lake Placid Club North v. South 
"Fyt to the limit": The battle between North and South continues 
Epilogue Legacy of a hero and a villain.
PB - ALA Editions
PP - Chicago, IL
PY - 1996
SN - 9780838906804
EP - 403 pp.
TI - Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey
ER -