{"product_id":"9781612196671","title":"Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when the story broke, the people fought back, as famous writers, professors, and citizens’ groups came together to defend a national treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018528407792,"sku":"9781612196671","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612196671_p0.jpg?v=1763847482","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612196671","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}