Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer AgeThe first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century. |
Contents
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| 23 | |
The First World War | 53 |
The First Postwar Clash 191822 | 69 |
The Clean Books Crusade | 99 |
The Latter 1920s | 128 |
Banned in Boston | 167 |
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