[Libri] James Russell Wiggins Lecture: Random Notes from a Book History Bureaucrat, by John B. Hench

[Jim Wald]

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Antiquarian Hall, AAS

Twenty-seventh Annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the Program in 
the History of the Book in American Culture

Random Notes from a Book History Bureaucrat
by John B. Hench

This talk by John B. Hench, retired vice president for collections and 
programs at AAS, will combine elements of memoir, reflections on the 
development and influence of the Society's Program in the History of the 
Book in American Culture, and notes on some of the themes in his recent 
scholarship on publishing in the World War II era.

John B. Hench worked at AAS for 33 years, beginning as editor of 
publications in 1973. He is the author of Books as Weapons: Propaganda, 
Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II 
(2010). Additionally, he co-edited The Press and the American Revolution 
(1981) and Printing and Society in Early America (1983).

The Wiggins Lecture is named for James Russell Wiggins (1903-2000), 
chairman of the Society from 1970 to 1977. He was editor of the 
Washington Post and, until his death at the age of 96, editor of the 
Ellsworth (Maine) American. Wiggins also served as U.S. ambassador to 
the United Nations in 1968.


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