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The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment

Behind the Bastards

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Dewey's Secrets

In 1906, after harassing has and then several colleagues on a cruise, the other members of the ALA united to push Dewey out of the organization he had helped to found. The times being what they were back then, few of his victims ever said anything publicly about his behavior. "It would be hard to exaggerate the degree to which this guy is a creep," she says.

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