A Debunker on the Road to World War II

(NYTimes) - Nicholson Baker no longer collects old newspapers. For the last decade or so he has lived in an old farmhouse in this little southern Maine town, and he now accepts that Maine winters and the quirks of his local news agent do not make him a person ideally situated to assemble a complete archive of The New York Times.
In 1999, pillaging his own savings, Mr. Baker purchased some 6,000 volumes of bound newspapers from the British Library, which was trying to unload them. Continued