the administration not really interested in him, and 
not really responsive to him. He thought he was 
the king of this local area and a lot of people 
viewed him very skeptically, as people will always 
do.


Q:  Perhaps the perception that he was forecasting 
the death of books made him unpopular with his 
fellow academics.

A:  Well, on the death of books—Marshall never 
said books were going to disappear. He never 
hinted at such a thing. What he said was, “Books