Nicholas Basbanes on Book Destruction

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Nicholas Basbanes is the author of “A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World.” It’s his third book about books and the people who love them. Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.