Download PDF by Zeke Jarvis: Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America

By Zeke Jarvis

ISBN-10: 1440843945

ISBN-13: 9781440843945

Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This exam of banned books throughout U.S. background examines the motivations and results of censorship, indicates us how our view of correct and mistaken has developed through the years, and is helping readers to appreciate the super significance of books and flicks in our society.

• offers readers with a large realizing of the several degrees of censorship

• places demanding situations to books into old context of societal criteria and present events

• Takes either ancient and literary views, spotting the lasting cultural affects of texts and their literary significance

• provides biographical history of significant authors who've been challenged

• Identifies the resource and explains the results of demanding situations to an important or influential banned books

• Compares demanding situations to arguable books opposed to related demanding situations to debatable movies, tv exhibits, and video games

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