book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age /
Paul S. Boyer
2nd ed
Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
c2002
xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates :
ill., ports. ;
cm
Print culture history in modern America
Includes bibliographical references and index
The vice societies in the nineteenth century -- The vice societies in the Progressive Era -- The First World War -- The first postwar clash-1918-22 -- The "Clean Books" crusade -- The latter 1920s -- "Banned in Boston" -- The onslaught against federal censorship -- The thirties -- The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s -- 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies