TY - SER AU - Carl Ostrowski CY - Amherst, MA LA - English N1 - 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 PB - University of Massachusetts Press PP - Amherst, MA PY - 2004 SN - 9781558494336 EP - 261 pp. TI - Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 ER -