For 30 Years, Publisher Has Sought To Capture A Culture

“This is a year for celebrations, from the centennials of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin to the 30th anniversary of The Library of America. While those black-jacketed books with their simple, elegant type didn’t appear until 1982, the nonprofit publisher with the lofty goal of republishing the literature of a nation began in 1979 with seed money from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.”