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Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America
By Paul S. Boyer
404 pages
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- Charles Scribner's Sons
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- New York
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- List of Illustration xi
- IN THE BEGINNING: Literary Criticism in Cincinnati, 1828-29 xxi
- One - The Vice Societies in the Nineteenth Century 1
- Two - The Vice Socities in the Progressive Era 23
- Three - The First World War 53
- Four - The First Postwar Clash-- 1918-22 69
- Five - The "Clean Books" Crusade 99
- Six - The Latter 1920s 128
- Seven - Banned in Boston 167
- Eight - The Onslaught Agsinst Federal Censorship 207
- Nine - The Thirties 249
- Index of names 357