How Libraries Ensure Ongoing Freedom in America

If there is one moment at the start of our country that probably ensured our ongoing freedom more than any other it was when Ben Franklin talked everyone else into building and opening libraries to the masses. Books were too expensive for most people in those days and therefore a lot of information was being held by a small number of people.
How Libraries Ensure Ongoing Freedom in America

August 16, 2010 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Walt says:
    August 17, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    Heartwarming “history” but…
    Ben Franklin formed a system of free public libraries across the US? Wow. Who woulda thunk it? Good thing, too, otherwise somebody like, oh, Andrew Carnegie would have had to cough up big sums more than a century later to actually get public libraries in more than a handful of wealthy communities.

    Good thoughts, lousy history.

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