Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America''s ''censor in chief,'' The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their welcome in society at large. This book explains how the same tactics were tried and eventually failed in the twentieth century, with efforts to censor music, comic books, television, and other forms of...