id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14554 Unaeze, Felix Eme An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Library during World War I (Book Review) 1990-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1562 121 63 Wiegand postulates that public libraries shared in an ideology of reading, as he puts it, ''good reading begets good social behavior and bad reading begets bad so­ cial behavior but as an emerging social class, libraries worried about stability and order of a society ''sorely tested by the ef­ fects of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. Wiegand, Wayne A. An Active Instru­ ment for Propaganda'': The American Pub­ lic Library during World War I. (Beta Phi Mu Monograph, No. 1) New York: Greenwood, 1989. cache/crl-14554.pdf txt/crl-14554.txt