{"id":1248,"date":"2010-10-14T07:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2010-10-14T07:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:38:52","slug":"andrew-fink-10-picks-up-national-prize-for-book-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/andrew-fink-10-picks-up-national-prize-for-book-collecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Fink &#039;10 Picks Up National Prize for Book Collecting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1248 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2010\/10\/Andrew-LibCongress2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2010\/10\/Andrew-LibCongress2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1306\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1306'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Andrew Fink awarded in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2010\/10\/Andrew-LibCongress3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2010\/10\/Andrew-LibCongress3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1305\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1305'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Andrew Fink awarded in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2010\/10\/Fink_propaganda.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2010\/10\/Fink_propaganda-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1249\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1249'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Comic book cover: Is This Tomorrow (detail). Catechetical Guild, 1947.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Andrew Fink \u201910 will be awarded first prize in the 2010 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest at a ceremony and dinner at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15. Fink was selected for the top prize, ahead of 28 other entrants, for his collection of propaganda, which he described in his submission <em>An Interdisciplinary Survey of 20th Century Propaganda<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fink, who majored in philosophy, will receive a prize of $2,500 and a further $1,000 will go to Puget Sound\u2019s Collins Memorial Library for the purpose of promoting future book collecting contests. Fink\u2019s entry into the prestigious national contest was made possible by his initial win in Collins Library\u2019s own contest, sponsored by the Book Club of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Fink says he cannot pinpoint just when he began collecting, but the first book he read was George Orwell\u2019s <em>Animal Farm<\/em>. \u201cAround that time, I also became interested in religious propaganda, particularly religious tracts that strange old men would hand out on the sidewalk at the edge of the school grounds,\u201d he wrote in a summary of his experience. \u201cI had no real interest in believing what they said; mostly I wanted to critique their arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there his reading spread to communist propaganda from the Cold War and social psychology. \u201cUsed book stores were a favorite hangout of mine, because usually buried somewhere between two mundane tomes there was a strange, little pamphlet hawking some strange ideology,\u201d he wrote.\u201dThere was a certain amazement that came with these findings\u2014amazement at what people can say in books, which people readily believe if it is written with the least bit of authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That amazement later turned to worry, and in college he began to research the connection between political thought and language, gathering more books as he went. He also continued collecting propaganda in all formats, \u201ceven ripping posters off walls and picking up books I happened across in the restroom.\u201d\u00a0 Fink\u2019s collection, focusing on political language and political theory, includes books from literary fiction, pamphlets, art books, books on philosophy, and newspaper articles.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was organized by the Antiquarian Booksellers&#8217; Association of America, the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, the Center for the Book, and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, with support from the Jay I. Kislak Foundation.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/news-events\/book-collect-award-winners\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/book-collecting-contest\/\">*Read <em>Collins Book Collecting Contest<\/em><\/a> (see links to Winners pages!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Fink \u201910 will be awarded first prize in the 2010 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest at a ceremony and dinner at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15. Fink was selected for the top prize, ahead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/andrew-fink-10-picks-up-national-prize-for-book-collecting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}