Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries

Foerstel, Herbert

ISBN 10: 0313285179 / ISBN 13: 9780313285172

Published by Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1994

About this Item

This is in good plus condition as there is a name written on the front paste-down that is scribbled over in marker otherwise this is a clean book with light wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 058529

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries
• Publisher: Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313285179
• ISBN 13: 9780313285172
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

About this title

Synopsis

Foerstel analyses eight major book-banning incidents from 1976 to 1992, ranks the 50 most challenged books in the 1990s and summarises the challenges to them. He also traces First Amendment cases and precedents in book-banning in schools and public libraries, and interviews banned authors.

About the Author

HERBERT N. FOERSTEL is the muthor of Surveillance in the Stacks: The FBI's Library Awareness Program (Greenwood Press, 1991), which was a Choice Best Academic Book for 1991, and of Secret Science, Federal Control of American Science and Technology (Praeger, 1992).