Cover Image

Book banning in 21st-century America / Emily J.M. Knox.

Show other versions (1)

Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books -- also known as challenges -- occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st Century America, based on fifteen contemporary book challenges cases in schools and public libraries across the United States, argues tha...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Knox, Emily, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Series:Beta Phi Mu scholars.
Subjects:
Public libraries > Censorship > United States.
School libraries > Censorship > United States.
Challenged books > United States.
Intellectual freedom > United States.
Books and reading > United States.
School libraries.
Public libraries.
Books and reading.
Books and reading > Psychological aspects.
Challenged books.
Intellectual freedom.
Public libraries > Censorship.
School libraries > Censorship.
United States.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Trusting the system
  • Power and knowledge
  • Perfect timing
  • The Moral decline of society, institutions, and the family
  • Reading should edify the soul
  • Fear, knowledge and power.

Similar Items