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Tag Archives: book banning
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
Sadly, book banning and even book burning continues to be in the news here in the USA. Just this week, I saw a video of members of a State legislature demanding the books that they found objectionable be removed from … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, History, Libraries, USA
Tagged book banning, censorship, Hay Festival, Heinrich Heine, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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Censorship is as American as apple pie
Although there is much ballyhoo and bluster in the United States about free speech, in reality censorship and book banning have been endemic since first European colonists arrived. The act of censorship, while theoretically limited by the First Amendment to … Continue reading
The Enemies of Books
The Enemies of Books is a book on biblioclasts and book preservation by the 19th-century bibliophile and book collector William Blades. The book was first published in 1880 and has been republished in different editions many times since. In the book, Blades, a well-known collector, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Bibliophiles, book banning, book preservation
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