Download or read book Purity in Print written by Paul S. Boyer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century.