Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.

Product Description: Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles...read more

Product Description: When Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata was banned from distribution through the mail (except for first class) in 1890, New York street vendors began selling it from pushcarts carrying large signs reading "Suppressed!" In 1961, the United States Supreme Court pondered whether D...read more

Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.

The one volume abridgement of the Banned book series highlights books banned for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons (view table of contents)

Product Description: Gives plot synopses of 105 works of fiction and nonfiction censored for their political content, and details the censorship history of each. Works covered include Black Boy, Gulliver's Travels, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)