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Title: Disappearing Ink
Subtitle: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
Author: Travis McDade
Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-21-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
Publisher's Summary:
Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past 10 years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye - Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before - but Kenyon refused to let this happen.
Members Reviews:
Bibliophiles, hide your children...
The Bruno Hauptmann of rare books lives! This is a grim reminder of broken humanity and betrayed trust in an otherwise peaceful college village and a mortal blow to their own "Smithsonian" collection.
Five Stars
I really enjoyed this book. It's well written and on a topic near and dear to my heart.
Five Stars
A fascinating and scary situation. This should be read by everyone involved with libraries and/or with authors' estates.
Five Stars
I really enjoyed reading this book. While a true life account of a crime, it read like a novel.
Good read - A cautionary tale of bumbling administrators asleep at the switch
Well written account of how Kenyon was looted. The lack of punishment and accountability was sad
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Title: Disappearing Ink
Subtitle: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
Author: Travis McDade
Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-21-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
Publisher's Summary:
Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past 10 years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye - Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before - but Kenyon refused to let this happen.
Members Reviews:
Bibliophiles, hide your children...
The Bruno Hauptmann of rare books lives! This is a grim reminder of broken humanity and betrayed trust in an otherwise peaceful college village and a mortal blow to their own "Smithsonian" collection.
Five Stars
I really enjoyed this book. It's well written and on a topic near and dear to my heart.
Five Stars
A fascinating and scary situation. This should be read by everyone involved with libraries and/or with authors' estates.
Five Stars
I really enjoyed reading this book. While a true life account of a crime, it read like a novel.
Good read - A cautionary tale of bumbling administrators asleep at the switch
Well written account of how Kenyon was looted. The lack of punishment and accountability was sad