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When I think, as one often does, about what I would rescue from my house if it were burning down, one of the first things that comes to mind is the two-volume collection of World War II reporting from the Library of America. Now, when I pause to reflect, I realize that this probably wouldn’t really be one of the first items I would rescue, because I could buy another copy, whereas acquiring a new family would be both cumbersome and fraught with legal difficulties.
Alan Jacobs is a professor of humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University, and a senior fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is ‘Paradise Lost: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books).’
