{"product_id":"9781612194301","title":"Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a series of cover stories for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library’s leaders forged an audacious plan to sell off multiple branch libraries, mutilate a historic building, and send millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey. Scholars, researchers, and readers would be out of luck, but real estate developers and New York’s Mayor Bloomberg would get what they wanted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But when the story broke, the people fought back, as famous writers, professors, and citizens’ groups came together to defend a national treasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rich with revealing interviews with key figures, \u003ci\u003ePatience and Fortitude\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a hugely readable history of the library’s secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power.","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139070738672,"sku":"9781612194301","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612194301_p0.jpg?v=1763847448","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612194301","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}