Foerstel analyses eight major book-banning incidents from 1976 to 1992, ranks the 50 most challenged books in the 1990s and summarises the challenges to them. He also traces First Amendment cases and precedents in book-banning in schools and public libraries, and interviews banned authors.
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HERBERT N. FOERSTEL is the former Head of Branch Libraries at the University of Maryland, College Park, and currently serves on the Board of the National Security Archive, located at the George Washington University. His previous books include: "Climbing the Hill" (Praeger, 1996), "Banned in the USA" (Greenwood, 1994), "Secret Science" (Praeger, 1993), and "Surveillance in the Stacks" (Greenwood, 1991).
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