Bookleggers and Smuthounds
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 18, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780812217988
Subjects: American studies; Cultural studies; Pornography & obscenity; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; USA; General; History / General; Popular Culture - General
First sentence: In the 1920s and 1930s, when sexually explicit books and magazines and their illustrations, not the Internet and video cassettes, were considered a chief corrupting influence in American homes, censorious authorities pointed suspiciously at booksellers of widely varying types.