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Wiegand, Wayne A. – 1996
This book is a biography of Melvil Dewey, the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Tracing Dewey's life and early influences that shaped it, the book explores Dewey's employment experiences, enterprises, and innovations and present a range of views on them; he was seen as an organizational genius but also as arrogant, manipulative,…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Biographies, Change Agents, Dewey Decimal Classification
