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03091aam a2200469 i 4500 001 089292825F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 210412t20212021enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021017164 020 $a 1107570379 020 $a 9781107570375 020 $a 110712994X 020 $a 9781107129948 035 $a (OCoLC)1246676115 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UKMGB $d GZL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF4770 $b .C67 2021 100 1 $a Corn-Revere, Robert, $e author. 245 14 $a The mind of the censor and the eye of the beholder : $b the First Amendment and the censor's dilemma / $c Robert Corn-Revere. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xvi, 367 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-357) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Comstock, Anthony, $d 1844-1915 $x Influence. 600 17 $a Comstock, Anthony, $d 1844-1915. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00329287 650 0 $a Freedom of expression $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Censorship $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Obscenity (Law) $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Censorship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00850568 650 7 $a Freedom of expression. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01200263 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 $a Obscenity (Law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01042937 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Corn-Revere, Robert. $t Mind of the censor and the eye of the beholder $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781316417065 $w (DLC) 2021017165 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220602012125.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014946.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=089292825F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search