Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library

McDade, Travis

ISBN 10: 1682301486 / ISBN 13: 9781682301487

Editore: Diversion Books, 2015

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Riassunto:

Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country.

In October 1990 Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its librarys part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery OConnor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eyeFlannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon Colleges most precious works.

After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims beforebut Kenyon refused to let this happen.

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Titolo: Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and ...
Casa editrice: Diversion Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good