The First freedom
Subtitle: liberty and justice in the world of books and reading
By: edited by Robert B. Downs.
Contributors: Downs, Robert Bingham, 1903-
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Censorship
Description: Writings about book censorship and intellectual freedom by William O. Douglas, Elmer Rice, Havelock Ellis, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Blanshard, Bernard De Voto, Aldous Huxley, Henry Steele Commager, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Osbert Sitwell, Heywood Broun, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, A.B. Guthrie, James T. Farrell, Archibald MacLeish, Dwight Eisenhower, Mark Van Doren, William Butler Yeats, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, and others. Includes Library Bill of Rights and The Freedom to Read.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.