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1	The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel more books like this by Jasper Fforde add to wishlist In an alternate 1985, where the Crimean War still rages 130-odd years later, Thursday Next works for a special operations unit that prevents criminals from damaging the world of literature. Though normally a fairly low-stress job, it heats up for Thursday when one of the three most evil villains in the world is accused of permanently altering the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fahrenheit 451 more books like this by Ray Bradbury add to wishlist In this classic of dystopian science fiction, censorship is so prevalent that "firemen" are entrusted with the task of burning books to keep the citizenry away from anything that might cause dissent. Suicides are commonplace, and people drug themselves with pills, thrills, and the meaningless programming that pours from four-wall television. Guy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.07! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn more books like this by Professor Diane Ravitch add to wishlist Diane Ravitch's book is an angry look at the censorship that right-wing (and also politically correct left-wing) groups are able to exercise on educational publishers, who hire "bias and sensitivity" experts to ensure that not one word will be offensive to anyone. Accordingly, books showing dinosaurs, women cooking, owls, candy, and angry people ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist Chomsky examines the role of the media in society and the question whether it serves the people or the state. see all copies from $4.32! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Propaganda more books like this by Edward L Bernays add to wishlist "Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies."-Noam Chomsky "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who ... see all copies from $7.12! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Eyre Affair more books like this by Jasper Fforde add to wishlist In an alternate 1985, where the Crimean War still rages 130-odd years later, Thursday Next works for a special operations unit that prevents criminals from damaging the world of literature. Though normally a fairly low-stress job, it heats up for Thursday when one of the three most evil villains in the world is accused of permanently altering the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment more books like this by Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon (Editor), Professor Gary Y Okihiro (Editor) add to wishlist Censored by the US Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This work of visual and social history confirms Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. "Impounded" evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $11.89! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World more books like this by Nicholas A Basbanes add to wishlist Nicholas A. Basbanes bemoans the state of the book today, fearful that many are simply disappearing as libraries de-access them, and surveying the history of looting, burning, defacement, and decay with an eye to what can be done about these and other problems. see all copies from $2.02! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio more books like this by Brian Jennings, Sean Hannity (Foreword by) add to wishlist Jennings offers a look inside the fairness doctrine--a hot button issue for all major conservative talk radio hosts--and its impact on politics and free speech in American talk radio. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath more books like this by Rick Wartzman add to wishlist Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nations number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California-the Joads newfound home-the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Censored War: American Visual Experience During World War Two more books like this by George H Roeder add to wishlist Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of dead and badly wounded Americans in a secret Pentagon file known to officials as the Chamber of Horrors. Later, as government leaders became concerned about public complacency brought on by Allied victories, they released some of these photographs of war's brutality. But to the war's end and ... see all copies from $3.81! new only from $22.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Censored: The Top 25 Censored Stories more books like this by Peter Phillips (Editor), Project Censored (Editor) add to wishlist The Founding Fathers believed that a free press was essential to a free society and they built that protection into the First Amendment. Even today, there are many who believe that the only thing that keeps us free is a vigorous fourth estate. However, as the number of information outlets increases exponentially, it seems that many stories get ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Day they came to arrest the book more books like this by Nat Hentoff add to wishlist Barney Roth, editor of the George Mason High School newspaper, gets embroiled in controversy when a group of students and parents attempt to have the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" removed from the school library and banned from being studied. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right more books like this by Mel White add to wishlist The bestselling author of "Stranger at the Gate" provides an inside expos of the Christian Right's agenda, and a playbook in how to resist it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.35! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood more books like this by Mark A Vieira add to wishlist An acclaimed film historian showcases a scintillating era in movie history--"pre-Code Hollywood"--that boldly creative period in the early 1930s when defiant producers flouted the restrictions of the censors. 275 photos. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $40.47! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq more books like this by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber add to wishlist The bestselling authors of "Weapons of Mass Deception" show how right-wing propaganda misled and continues to mislead the nation, embroiling America in its most intractable conflict since Vietnam. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies more books like this by Clayton R Koppes, Gregory D Black add to wishlist The little-explored story of how politics, propaganda, and profits were combined to create the drama, imagery and fantasy that was American film during World War II. 32 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Shut Up, America!: The End of Free Speech more books like this by Brad O'Leary add to wishlist Can you be trusted with free speech? Many politicians in Washington dont think so. They see your right to free speech as a threat to their seat in power. In this hard-hitting book, bestselling author Brad OLeary exposes the frightening movement afoot th see all copies from $2.51! new only from $2.51! \| SVS
19 view cover	Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America more books like this by Eric D Nuzum add to wishlist IN see all copies from $4.50!
20 view cover	Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the struggle over censorship created the modern film industry more books like this by Jon E Lewis add to wishlist Taking two events as his starting point--the creation of the Motion Picture Association of America in 1968, and U.S. Supreme Court rulings handed down in 1973 that effectively ended federal protection for films considered pornographic--Lewis explores the relationships between film and censorship, film distributors and viewers, and, perhaps most ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Sledding Hill more books like this by Chris Crutcher add to wishlist Billy Bartholomew is dead. His best friend, Eddie Proffit, is still alive. Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill--like they always have. And Billy is not about to let a little thing like death stop him from hanging in there with Eddie in his epic struggle to get his life back on track. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon more books like this by Ronald K L Collins, David M Skover add to wishlist "One of the best books of 2002."-Los Angeles Times see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani Tragedy more books like this by Tariq Ali add to wishlist The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy - under pressure from the Foreign Office - decided to cancel the project. Why? General Zia ul ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $7.90! \| SVS
24 view cover	Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge UFO Incident, Its Cover-Up and Investigation more books like this by Larry Warren, Peter Robbins add to wishlist Larry Warren gives an eye-witness account of a UFO incident at the RAF base at Rendlesham Forest in East Anglia. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $8.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought more books like this by Jonathan Rauch add to wishlist Tracing attacks on free speech from Plato's Republic to America's campuses and newsrooms, Jonathan Rauch provides an engaging and provocative attack on those who would limit free thought by restricting free speech. Rauch explores how the system for producing knowledge works in a liberal society, and why it has now become the object of a powerful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.52! \| first editions \| SVS

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