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10%OFFBill Schmitt - Words of Life: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and Meaning - 9780268017835 - V9780268017835
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Words of Life: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and Meaning

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Description for Words of Life: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and Meaning Paperback. Celebrates the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library and its fifty years as a place of evolving service, powerful symbolism, and collaboration. It tells the history of the Library in terms of its meaning to all those who designed it, helped it to become a reality, imbued it with a distinctive identity, and pointed it toward the future. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1KBBND; GL; GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 254 x 11. Weight in Grams: 590.

This book celebrates the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library and its fifty years as a place of evolving service, powerful symbolism, and collaboration. It tells the history of the Library in terms of its meaning to all those who designed it, helped it to become a reality, imbued it with a distinctive identity, and pointed it toward the future. The text by Bill Schmitt and photographs from the University Archives and university photographers give the reader a new appreciation for a building that is central to the university’s history and therefore important to supporters of Notre Dame as a ... Read more

Schmitt begins with the Library's dedication day in 1964 and explores what the new building meant to Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., who as president of Notre Dame played a key role in its construction and in defining its characteristics and place at Notre Dame. The book focuses especially on the building’s best-known feature, the iconic mural named The Word of Life but better known to many as “Touchdown Jesus.” Included in the book are numerous photos that transport the reader to the past and enhance an appreciation of the mural and the building for us today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268017835
SKU
V9780268017835
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Bill Schmitt
Bill Schmitt is communications and media specialist for the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Football Weekends at Notre Dame: Snapshots and Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).

Reviews for Words of Life: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and Meaning
"This story of Notre Dame’s library, built by and named for Father Ted Hesburgh, the university’s president emeritus, provides fascinating information about the impressive building and the great man who built it. The book is a must read for anyone associated with Notre Dame and others who come on fall Saturdays to see 'Touchdown Jesus' on the library and the ... Read more

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