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Stealing George Washington: The Heist That Shook the Library of Congress

By Daniel Stone
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The fascinating, barely known story of the theft of George Washington’s diary and other irreplaceable historical documents from the Library of Congress in the 1890s, which launched an interstate chase by the Secret Service and a sensational trial, and changed the trajectory of America’s nation’s library.

It is 1896, and the Congressional Library in the Capitol is bursting at the seams with books and documents. Ainsworth Spofford, the longtime Librarian of Congress, is tirelessly advocating f...

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