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Purity in Print "The best literary, social, and ethical history of the U.S."—Choice The 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. "Paul Boyer is one of America's most distinguished cultural historians. . . . Taking the censors of an earlier day seriously and getting beyond the caricature of Anthony Comstock, Purity in Print remains one of the most important books on censorship in the United States."—Carl Kaestle, Brown University, co-editor of The History of the Book in America, Volume IV "Clear, informative, and very readable. . . . An excellent and much-needed book."—Publishers Weekly "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 Quarterly "Boyer has carefully read the sources, interviewed surviving participants in the censorship battles, and has produced an eminently readable and judicious account."—Stow Persons, American Historical Review "Highly readable."—Baltimore Sun "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."—Choice 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. |
First Paperback edition April 2002 400 pp. 46 b/w photos 6 x 9 ISBN 0-299-17584-7 Paper $21.95 s To order click on one of the bulleted items below For explaination of the
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