The Public Domain (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

Angle of Repose

Along with them in their box is Donaldson’s ponderous report on the Public Domain, a work as neglected by the Congress that commissioned it as King predicted it would be, but a benchmark in the nation’s understanding of itself, the sort of contribution to disinterested knowledge that my grandfather would have liked to make.