PURITY IN PRINT

ISBN-13: 978-0-299-17584-9
Writer: Paul S. Boyer
Title: Purity in Print
Subtitle: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
Language: English
Second Edition
First Printing: 1965
Place of Publication: Madison, WI
Publisher:  The University of Wisconcin Press
Year of Publication: 2002
Format: 150x234mm (trimmed)
Pages:  xxviii+466; Notes, 363; Index, 443
Illustrations: 38 black and white
Binding: softcover in colour printed wrappers by Rose Design
Weight: 746 gr.
Original Price: N/A
Entry No: N/A
Entry Date:  N/A
Discarded copy of the Harris County Public Library, Texas

BOOK DESCRIPTION

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 tow new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century