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Kenneth E. Carpenter

Articles by Kenneth E. Carpenter

Ken Carpenter held numerous positions in the Harvard University Library. From 1968 to 1980, he was curator of the Kress Collection at the Harvard Business School, a collection of pre-1850 business and economic literature. In his last position, he was editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin. The bibliography of “The Way to Wealth” is among the scholarly projects that Ken is carrying out in retirement.

Some phrases have become common expressions because the works in which they appear were printed repeatedly in diverse publications. That is the only way they could have entered into such widespread popular usage. Such a phrase is “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,”...
Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth”: Documenting Its Dissemination through Bibliographical Work
April 2015 (Volume 10, Issue 2)

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