A literary, social and ethical history of book censorship in the USA. The first edition documented censorship from the 1870s to the 1930s. This second edition includes two new chapters that carry this history forward to the beginning of the 21st century.
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Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age by Paul S. Boyer
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The best literary, social, and ethical history of book censorship in the U.S. - Choice Boyer has traced the confusions, the ironies, and the sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic effects of American efforts to cope with the question of what is permissible and what is taboo in the public morality and in the printed word. - George K. Smart, American Quarterly
About Paul S. Boyer
Paul Boyer is the Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include Salem Possessed (with Stephen Nissenbaum), By the Bomb's Early Light, When Time Shall Be No More, and Fallout. He is editor in chief of The Oxford Companion to United States History.
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GOR013250409
9780299175849
0299175847
Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age by Paul S. Boyer
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