Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Books, classical republicanism, and proposals for a congressional library
  • Madison's vision realized, 1800-1812
  • Thomas Jefferson, George Watterston, and the library, 1814-1829
  • Jacksonian democracy and the library, 1829-1843
  • James Alfred Pearce, the Smithsonian Institution, and the question of a national library, 1844-1859
  • Congressmen use their library, 1840-1859.