Purity In Print: Book Censorship In America From The Gilded Age To The Computer Age (Print Culture History In Modern America)

Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age (Print Culture History in Modern America)

From the Back Cover"Thoroughly documented and richly illustrated. . . . 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 QuarterlyThe 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.Review"Clear, informative, and very readable. . . . An excellent and much-needed book."-Publishers Weekly"Boyer . . . writes with insight and sophisticated wit . . . [about] the emergence of courageous and controversial publishers after World War I, the effect of Nazi book burnings, and the failure or reticence of librarians . . . to be in the anti-censorship vanguard. . . . The best literary, social, and ethical history of [book censorship in] the U.S."-ChoiceFrom the PublisherAnnouncing a new series Print Culture History in Modern America Wayne A. Wiegand and James P. Danky, Series EditorsAbout the AuthorPaul 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