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Demeter

(85,373 posts)
10. Works banned in Boston
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 09:08 AM
Dec 2014

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1881)[9]
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1894)[9]
Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn (1909)[9]
Many Marriages by Sherwood Anderson (1923)[9]
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley (1923)[9]
The American Mercury (magazine, 1926)[9]
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill (play, 1926)[9]
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927)[9]
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1927)[9]
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1927)[9]
Oil! by Upton Sinclair (1927)[9]
Black April by Julia Peterkin (1927)[9]
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1927)[9]
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner (1927)[9]
Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten (1927)[9]
The World of William Clissold by H.G. Wells (1927)[9]
Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson (1927)[9]
Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill (play, 1929)[9]
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1929)[9]
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (magazine serial, 1929)[9]
Jews Without Money by Michael Gold (1930)[9]
God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell (1933)[9]
Within the Gates by Seán O'Casey (play, 1935)[9]
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman (play, 1935)[9]
Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets (play, 1935)[2]
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith 1944[9]
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (1944)[9]
The Moon is Blue (1953)
Wake Up Little Susie by The Everly Brothers (song, 1957)[10]
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1965)[8]
Fanny Hill by John Cleland (1966)
Read H. Beam Piper's Null-ABC hobbit709 Dec 2014 #1
Remember how the idiots in _Idiocracy_ suspected anyone who could read? nt tblue37 Dec 2014 #61
Anyone feel like we're repeating history? marym625 Dec 2014 #2
If this wholesale attack on knowledge and learning keeps up meow2u3 Dec 2014 #4
yep. marym625 Dec 2014 #5
Those people learned more in their association with Stalin Sweeney Dec 2014 #8
Sweeney Diclotican Dec 2014 #23
Teabaggers would spell it "Rain" hobbit709 Dec 2014 #6
If the idiots are willing to do anything it is better than talking the situation to death Sweeney Dec 2014 #7
"Fourth rein," surely malthaussen Dec 2014 #21
Yes, and they burned them also. asjr Dec 2014 #17
I think book and music bannings and burnings are a phenomenon that breaks out in different places Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #18
Hitler and Stalin were both guilty of this. Initech Dec 2014 #40
What a wonderful education. Sweeney Dec 2014 #3
The problem with what you said F4lconF16 Dec 2014 #46
This is a well-established practice of at least a century, or more Demeter Dec 2014 #9
Works banned in Boston Demeter Dec 2014 #10
Interesting that you mention Boston Trillo Dec 2014 #22
^^^ Interesting ^^^ SalviaBlue Dec 2014 #39
Don't you insult my Fanny!! Demeter Dec 2014 #41
They don't need intellectuals..... paleotn Dec 2014 #11
Add in fundy religion to the mix and hifiguy Dec 2014 #36
I agree. WHEN CRABS ROAR Dec 2014 #45
"Reality has a known left wing bias", and facts clash with the repuke world view. Simple. on point Dec 2014 #12
Didn't there used to be a really nice library in Alexandria? GliderGuider Dec 2014 #13
+1. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #15
Imagine ...if that had not been destroyed. L0oniX Dec 2014 #29
*repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500) MisterP Dec 2014 #33
As I recall . . . Jack Rabbit Dec 2014 #51
And murdered Hyapatia, the librarian hifiguy Dec 2014 #55
Fear makes you stupid. bemildred Dec 2014 #14
+1 xchrom Dec 2014 #19
National anthem: Duck and cover. L0oniX Dec 2014 #30
It Can't Happen Here Perseus Dec 2014 #16
The saddest thing I've read this year. Pholus Dec 2014 #20
They also claim its not in the Constitution BobbyBoring Dec 2014 #43
Thanks for posting Omaha Steve Dec 2014 #24
... xchrom Dec 2014 #32
Terrible policies. blackspade Dec 2014 #25
Are they burning them yet? That will be next. Humanity is regressing as well. L0oniX Dec 2014 #27
Give them a little time.... blackspade Dec 2014 #49
Where books are burned hifiguy Dec 2014 #56
Or put them is mass graves..... blackspade Dec 2014 #63
So "A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn" wouldn't be allowed either. L0oniX Dec 2014 #26
K/R marmar Dec 2014 #28
I just started reading about the 19th century America Demeter Dec 2014 #42
we see it every day everywhere and it becomes the new normal . olddots Dec 2014 #31
It simply is just easier to control the ignorant. nt kelliekat44 Dec 2014 #34
The late Richard Hofstadter was railing about this hifiguy Dec 2014 #35
Yep. His book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" was required reading The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2014 #44
Shame on Tucson daredtowork Dec 2014 #37
You can see this in the whole STEM circle-jerk. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #38
Scientism? Like what? As a computer engineering major I wonder what you're talking about. alp227 Dec 2014 #54
It's probably more obvious to people coming from the lib arts background Posteritatis Dec 2014 #58
TPTB desire a new generation of automatons, pliable cows easily herded against their own self blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #47
I live in NW Arkansas, chervilant Dec 2014 #48
Not to argue or even nitpick, but SheilaT Dec 2014 #50
Seems like a leap ... JEFF9K Dec 2014 #52
Good article gopiscrap Dec 2014 #53
America has always... sendero Dec 2014 #57
When does the book-burning start? nikto Dec 2014 #59
I agree.... defacto7 Dec 2014 #60
So... caucasian is not an ethnicity? cui bono Dec 2014 #62
Ignorance is Bliss. Octafish Dec 2014 #64
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