Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango

This guide to the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá follows Luis Ángel Arango, who ran the Banco de la República through the 1950s and grew fixed on building a free public library for the city. You'll hear how the bank had quietly been assembling a collection since the 1920s, and how Arango pushed the project through committee after committee until architects had a design on paper. He died in January 1957, before a single reader climbed the steps. Listen for how the board chose to honor him next.