An American Adventure in Bookburning: In the Style of 1918

Vintage Softcover with bonus related book, Stated First Edition, 1988, Ralph Myles Publisher, Colorado Springs, 137 pages. Very Good+, in illustrated wraps. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to covers. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. From the back cover - It is the first treatment ever of the American government's - and, as it developed, the mainstream American medias' - attempt during World War I to prevent the citizenry from reading certain books about the origins of that war and related issues. From the starting point of the Secretary of War's little-known directive of August 31, 1918, which banned many titles as "German propaganda" from Army camp libraries, James J. Martin takes us on a grand tour of the American book publishing inquisition of those days and since. A special treat is the inclusion, as an appendix, of Professor Martin's celebrated 1954 essay, A Beginner's Manual for Apprentice Bookburners, republished here in its complete, original form. Read it, and you'll learn about some real ''underground books" and some of the real socio-political controversies of our time. Highly Recommended. The bonus book is The Saga of Hog Island by the same author, James J. Martin. It is in Very Good condition with a minor shelf/edge wear and creasing to the covers. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Contains revisionist history essays on Hog Island, Consequences of WW2 to Britain, death and Life of the Mafia in Italy, pearl harbor, legend of Colin Kelly, Framing of Tokyo Rose and three appendices - Two Blacklists, The Morganthau plan and fifty Years of Assassinations. Ralph Myles Publishing is one of the finest revisionist publishers of the last fifty years. All of their titles are classics and will probably never be reprinted, especially in this current climate. Two books by the same author for one price.ISBN-0879260246.LOC SSS-06

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ISBN: 0879260246

ISBN-13: 9780879260248

Publisher: Ralph Myles

Year: 1988

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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