Opposed New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani s effort to censor the Sensations exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art because he believed some of it was sick stuff, particularly an African portrait of the Virgin Mary that incorporated elephant dung. Recommended a list of books on the subject of violence to booksellers and librarians in an effort to raise the level of the discussion of the causes of violence at a time when many politicians were blaming the media for the Columbia shootings. Defended the right of Arcade Publishing to publish the memoir of a Palestinian who had masterminded the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Former Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum had urged booksellers not to agree not to sell the book in an effort to pressure Arcade to drop plans to publish it. Help us defend First Amendment rights.
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