Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries

by Herbert N. Foerstel

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

231 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1994

Reviews

[library fairy]

Read this for grad school, unfortunately very relevant today even though this was published in 2002

[Walt · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an informative book. I was a little annoyed with the author's obvious liberal bias in presenting the material. There are some very important points.
1) Challenges that were successful
2) How to fight challenges
3) Relevance for Academic Libraries
4) Why education in America continues to decline - the increased use of texts that are so stagnant that no one can object to the content
5) Committees established to evaluate challenged books are almost never supported by administrators.

[Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book to identify why certain books are banned. I didn't know that Judy Blume was one of the most banned authors. Incredible interesting.

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some incidents of banning, 'voices' of banned authors and a select list of most banned books.