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In reply to the discussion: America's Dangerous Turn to Anti-Intellectualism [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)10. Works banned in Boston
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)
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If the idiots are willing to do anything it is better than talking the situation to death
Sweeney
Dec 2014
#7
I think book and music bannings and burnings are a phenomenon that breaks out in different places
Dustlawyer
Dec 2014
#18
"Reality has a known left wing bias", and facts clash with the repuke world view. Simple.
on point
Dec 2014
#12
*repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500)
MisterP
Dec 2014
#33
So "A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn" wouldn't be allowed either.
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#26
Yep. His book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" was required reading
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2014
#44
Scientism? Like what? As a computer engineering major I wonder what you're talking about.
alp227
Dec 2014
#54
TPTB desire a new generation of automatons, pliable cows easily herded against their own self
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#47