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A Walking Tour of the New Museum of the Bible

…and books. Books are sacred. Books are sacred for what is inside of them, the content, the symbolism. And when you are burning books you are burning ideas, destroying ideas….

Two Titans, Two Temples

…and given endowments of sufficient generosity to make certain they will remain cultural jewels for the world always. A Sistine chapel for books Unlike most of the financial and industrial…

Philadelphia Library Company

…of books. But those books were not kept exclusively for the private consumption of club members—the collection was also opened to the public. Books could be picked out, returned, or…

You Can’t Take It With You

…is question some of Madoff’s core assumptions. But first, some context. For many centuries, the trust has served as a device for circumventing the state. Frederic William Maitland, the great…

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Champion Givers

…this past summer with his additional help. The $105 million expansion, which will include both clinical and research facilities, will focus on children’s cancers. HCI’s database of 16 million cancer…

Winter 2016 – Shakespeare s Savior

…$400 million in current dollars. Erasmus said, “When I have some money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food.” Henry Folger had money for books

Spring 2013 – Books in Brief

…are many smart people writing important books about education reform, but it takes a special kind of writer to effortlessly weave Billy Crystal, Moneyball, and Al Capone into the argument….