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Mark Callow points out that the list of most-censored books contains
some very worthwhile works.  This is not surprising.

Trashy books seldom get censored, partly because they are not used in
schools (and therefore do not attract much attention) and partly because
they contain few ideas which the powers-that-be find threatening.

I heard of one case in which the school board member who was leading the
crusade to ban John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" (on the grounds
that it contained "bad language" and was "unsuitable for the classroom")
was the president of a local bank.  Could it be that he had entirely
different reasons for wanting the book banned?



				Dave Seaman
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