A riveting investigation of a
beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests — by the reporter who broke the story In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York
City's most
beloved and iconic
institutions: the New York Public Library.
A body of 3500 students of that
institution, of both sexes, marched by, casting flowers upon the coffin, and followed by delegations from all the municipal and charitable organizations of the
city, and by uncounted multitudes, whose relation to the
beloved philanthropist was not official or representative, but simply personal.