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The Library of America is a nonprofit publishing company whose mission is to renew and preserve the literary heritage of the United States. To accomplish this, the Library publishes the best American writing of the past. As part of the historic preservation movement, the Library attempts to make permanently available, at moderate cost, those books that have remained crucial to the formation of American culture.
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This is a slightly revised and updated version of an article from theGazette of the Grolier Club (1994) Number 46, reprinted by permission.
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Hurley, C. Rescuing America’s literary heritage: The story of the library of America. Publishing Research Quarterly 12, 36–49 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02680573
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02680573