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Americans Do Not Read
Hazlitt, Henry | September 3, 1930 issue

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The article discusses the book "Books: Their Place in a Democracy," by R.L. Duffus. Duffus had undertaken the study for the Carnegie Corp., which was keen to see what could be done to enlarge the reading of "serious, non-technical books." In this book Duffus goes on to show that the American people, every three or four weeks, spend as much on motion picture admissions as they spend on books, directly and indirectly in an entire twelve months. Their annual expenditure on automobile pleasure touring is twenty times that for recreational reading.

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BOOKS (Book); DUFFUS, R. L.; CARNEGIE Corp. of New York; BOOKS & reading; MOTION pictures; AUTOMOBILES; TRAVEL
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