Banned in Boston
Subtitle: the Watch and Ward Society's crusade against books, burlesque, and the social evil
By: Neil Miller
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780807051122
Subjects: Sex-oriented businesses; Social control; Vigilance committees; Watch and Ward Society (Boston, Mass.); Censorship; Social conditions; Moral conditions; Corruption; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The battle of Brimstone Corner, April 1926; title: Founding fathers, 1878; title: First forays into censorship, 1881-1898; title: Politics, poker, and the "social evil, " 1884-1897; title: Mrs. Glyn and sin, 1903-1909; title: Tough guys and "blue bloods, " 1907-1925; title: New Bedford, 1916; title: The battle of Diamond Hill, 1917-1918; title: Café Society, 1917-1919; title: Corruption fighters, 1913-1924; title: Mencken versus Chase, round 2, 1926; title: Censorship goes wild, 1927-1928; title: Boston, 1929; title: The Dunster Bookshop fiasco, 1929; title: Depression days, 1930-1938; title: This was burlesque, 1931-1953; title: The forties, 1941-1948; title: A kinder, gentler watch and ward, 1948-1967.