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The First freedom

by Robert Bingham Downs

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Writings about book censorship and intellectual freedom by William O. Douglas, Elmer Rice, Havelock Ellis, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Blanshard, Bernard De Voto, Aldous Huxley, Henry Steele Commager, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Osbert Sitwell, Heywood Broun, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, A.B. Guthrie, James T. Farrell, Archibald MacLeish, Dwight Eisenhower, Mark Van Doren, William Butler Yeats, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, and others. Includes Library Bill of Rights and The Freedom to Read.

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For young readers

Book data: Open Library