| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 367 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The censor's dilemma -- Anthony Comstock : professional anti-vice crusader -- Comstock's legacy : a dilemma is born -- The Comstock playbook -- Seduction of the innocent : the comic book menace -- Ya got trouble : censorship and popular music -- The vast wasteland -- New age comstockery : the indecency wars -- The anti-free speech movement -- Freedom of speech and the spirit of liberty -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Pity the plight of poor Anthony Comstock. The man H.L. Mencken described as "the Copernicus of a quite new art and science," who literally invented the profession of anti-obscenity crusader in the waning days of the 19th century, ultimately got, as legendary comic Rodney Dangerfield would say, "no respect, no respect at all." As head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and special agent for the U.S. Post Office under a law that popularly bore his name, Comstock was, in Mencken's words, the one "who first capitalized moral endeavor like baseball or the soap business, and made himself the first of its kept professors.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2021) |
| Subject |
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915 fast |
| Subject |
Freedom of expression -- United States -- History
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Censorship -- United States -- History
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Obscenity (Law) -- United States -- History
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Censorship
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Freedom of expression
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Obscenity (Law)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021017165 |
| ISBN |
9781316417065 |
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1316417069 |
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