Burning Books

by Haig A. Bosmajian

Book Overview

For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, immoral, obscene, subversive or seditious. Books have been reduced to ashes in church yards, college yards, school furnaces, public squares and city streets. The goals of the book burners have been to extirpate history, to intimidate and stamp out opposition, to create solidarity, and to cleanse society of controversial ideas. Too...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786471565
• ISBN13: 9780786471560
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher