{"product_id":"banning-books-in-america-not-a-how-to-9798765138076","title":"Banning Books in America: Not a How-To","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about banned books in the U.S. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanning Books in America \u003c\/i\u003efeatures novelists on banning and being banned, arguments about the histories and politics of book banning, readings of banned books in national and international contexts, and responses to new legislation by anti-censorship advocates, teachers, and librarians. Together, these writers and educators provide a view from the trenches of the wars on reading. They offer, if not a single blueprint, models for how to think about what it means to ban books and how to fight back against the forces that would ban them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book shows that at the heart of this issue is the question of what books mean to people. Some Americans are determined to decide which books other Americans shouldn't get to read. Why these books? Why now? Anyone who seeks to answer these questions must examine the context, historical and current, in which Americans allow this to happen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book about book banning in America, and so it is a book about America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798765138076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, USA, where he teaches a course on banned books. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s\u003c\/i\u003e (Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Legacy of David Foster Wallace\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eThe Clash Takes on the World \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2017). He is series editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Samuel Cohen \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47711730729117,"sku":"9798765138076","price":41.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_aa6964b1-ee67-45f0-a0a1-7651e7b40c3a.jpg?v=1773168791","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/banning-books-in-america-not-a-how-to-9798765138076","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}