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Battle of the Books
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by:
Burress, Lee
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Publisher:
Rowman and Littlefield
Published: Non NBN
ISBN: 0810821516
Format:Hardcover
Pages:385
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Book Description
From Book News, Inc.
The book answers several questions: Who are the censors? What are their objections? What typically happens in a school censorship situation? An appendix details some 800 titles that have been challenged. Extensive bibliography.
Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
About the Author
Lee Burress (BA, Wichita State; BC, Garret Evangelical Theological Seminary; Ph.D., English, Boston University) is Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
He has taught and published articles on a wide variety of subjects--American literature, folklore, composition, and literary censorship. Since 1963 he has carried out six state or national surveys of censorship problems in the public schools. He has been
a member and chair of the Committee Against Censorship of the National Council of Teachers of English, chair of the Committee Against Censorship of the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, and an officer of the Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom
Coalition since he helped to establish it in 1977. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of several books on censorship.
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