When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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When: Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:30pm - 6:30pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
With Molly Guptill Manning, a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who sits on the board of editors of the "Federal Bar Council Quarterly."
This illustrated lecture tells the story of a beloved and nearly forgotten government program of distributing 120 million paperbacks, cheaply printed and distributed free, to deployed troops, to keep up morale.
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