"With the addition to the local building, the Center will more easily be able to house the 60,000 volumes of its research library, the largest of its type in the world, according to Kurtz; included are rare books such as all the first editions of Thomas Paine, including "The Age of Reason" and works by Ethan Allen from 1784. Recently, the Center received a shipment of boxes containing the complete library of famed performer Steve Allen, who willed his books and the papers he personally wrote to the Center, where he was a longtime member."

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