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Index
Cover
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Magic books
1. Beginnings: East, West, and Gutenberg
2. Queen Victoria in the trenches
3. Christmas, gift books, and abolition
4. Shelfies: Anne, Marilyn, and Madame de Pompadour
5. Silent Spring and the making of a classic
6. The Titanic and book traffic
7. Religions of the book
8. May 10, 1933: burning books
9. Library books, camp, and malicious damage
10. Censored books: “237 goddams, 58 bastards, 31 Chrissakes, and 1 fart”
11. Mein Kampf: freedom to publish?
12. Talismanic books
13. Skin in the game: bookbinding and African American poetry
14. Choose Your Own Adventure: readers’ work
15. The empire writes back
16. What is a book?
Epilogue: Books and transformation
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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