BIB_ID
436363
Accession number
MA 23730.3
Creator
Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004, sender.
Display Date
Washington, D.C., 1991 March 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.5 x 12.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. John Stanger / Melrose Park High School / Melrose Park, IL 60160."
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "The Librarian of Congress Emeritus / Washington, D.C. 20540."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "The Librarian of Congress Emeritus / Washington, D.C. 20540."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2020.
Summary
Responding that the book that made the greatest difference in his life was Edward Gibbon's The decline and fall of the Roman Empire and that he wrote his honors essay about it when he was an undergraduate at Harvard.
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