Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries (New Directions in Information Management)

Foerstel, Herbert

ISBN 10: 0313285179 / ISBN 13: 9780313285172

Published by Greenwood Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries (New Directions in Information Management)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313285179
• ISBN 13: 9780313285172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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).