James Billington

James Billington, 86, departing January 1 as librarian of Congress, excelled in many areas such as Russian history. But he was not a librarian by background, and many of the real McCoys hated him. No small number of the library’s techies might have felt the same way. This Reagan-era appointee shunned e-mail and rarely picked […]

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