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Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

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Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

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James H. Billington

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Born: June 1, 1929
Died: November 20, 2018 (aged 89)
Bio: James Hadley Billington, the Librarian of Congress Emeritus, was a leading American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions.
Known for:
  1. Fire in the Minds of Men (1980)
  2. The Icon and the Axe (1966)
  3. Russia in Search of Itself (2004)

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