{"product_id":"disappearing-ink-the-insider-the-fbi-and-the-looting-of-the-kenyon-college-library-9781682301487","title":"Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Travis McDade\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Diversion Publishing - Ips\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Diversion Publishing - Ips\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Con Artists, Hoaxes \u0026amp; Deceptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In October 1990 Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye--Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before--but Kenyon refused to let this happen.","brand":"Diversion Publishing - Ips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083303674007,"sku":"9781682301487","price":1448.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781682301487.webp?v=1767142616","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/disappearing-ink-the-insider-the-fbi-and-the-looting-of-the-kenyon-college-library-9781682301487","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}