Banned In Boston

Author : Neil Miller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080705111X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banned in Boston written by Neil Miller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. Banned in Boston is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays. A spectacular romp through the Puritan City, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "banned in Boston."

Author : Lillian Kiernan Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410768087
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banned in Boston written by Lillian Kiernan Brown and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a devastating break-up with her fiancé and the death of her mother, Teresa Parrish felt her life had ended. She quickly accepted a job as a forensic specialist for the CIA in order to escape her pain. For practically three years, she indulged herself into her work sacrificing all hopes of ever finding love again. Things seem to quickly change when she is introduced to Doctor Jake by her boss accidentally or so it appears. A week later her closest friend introduces her to Benjamin. She slowly begins to open her heart that has been close to love for so long. The problem that arises for her is her ex-fiancé wants her back into his life. Now, she has three men fighting for her love and affection. The question is, will she find the happiness she deserves or will her search for true love end in destruction?

Author : Lillian Eugenia Smith
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156856362
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Lillian Eugenia Smith and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.

Author : Daniel Kimmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736516508
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banned in Boston written by Daniel Kimmel and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Porter is an MBA student unsure what his future holds. Franklin Abbott is a Boston Brahman, wanting to use his "old money" to do some good for the city he loves. Margaret O'Leary is a widowed Irish matron from South Boston who is indignant about most everything except her numerous friends and relations. This unlikely trio heads up Decency and Morality Now! (which has the unfortunate acronym of D.A.M.N!) This antipornography organization has seen its funding dwindle with the advent of the VCR, as well as the city's indifference to the issue. They come up with a way to "fight fire with fire" in order to increase their revenue stream. It's foolproof - unless they get caught, that is. Revisit Boston in the 1980s, a time of relative innocence, in this "slightly naughty-but-nice" fable, in which "things are not always what they seem." You never know what might get "Banned in Boston."

Author : David M. Powers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630877611
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damnable Heresy written by David M. Powers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned--and burned--in Boston. Now for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive account of Pynchon's story, beginning in England, through his New England adventures, to his return home. Discover the fabric of his times and the roles Pynchon played in the Puritan venture in Old England and New England.

Author : William Pynchon
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780820417608
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption written by William Pynchon and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption: A Facsimile Edition reproduces William Pynchon's rare 1650 theological treatise about the Atonement. Written in the dialogue genre and deemed heretical by Boston orthodoxy, the book was burned on the city Commons. More than three hundred years later Meritorious Price is transformed in On Preterition, a fictional counterpart that is inscribed in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, a landmark in the contemporary American novel. The reworking of the Puritan past in this recent postmodernist novel in part results from Thomas Pynchon's direct descent from his Puritan ancestor, but more than that, it points at important continuities in American literature. Introductory essays by Michael W. Vella, Lance Schachterle, and Louis Mackey explore questions of genealogy, theology, and postmodernism in the presentation of this facsimile edition aimed at scholars and readers of both Pynchons.

Author : Ralph Edward McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banned in Boston written by Ralph Edward McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.B9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elmer Gantry written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-01-01T20:36:53Z with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Gantry isn’t suited to be a lawyer, so he becomes a preacher instead. Although he experiences a variety of failures, and even more successes, Gantry ultimately finds this new career path suits him very well indeed—despite his drinking and womanizing. Throughout his time as a preacher Gantry progresses through the hierarchies of the Baptist and Methodist churches, dabbles in revivalism and “New Thought,” and even experiments with politics, all the while emerging from scandals relatively unscathed and ready to move onward and upward once again. Sinclair Lewis published the satirical Elmer Gantry in 1927 much to the dismay of the religious community. It was denounced from the pulpit, banned by many, and even engendered threats of violence. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—it went on to become a massive success and the best selling novel of that year. One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly important aspect of American history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Tong-hwa Kim
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596434589
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Earth written by Tong-hwa Kim and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains graphic sexual topics.

Author : Patrick Moore
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806538368
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir written by Patrick Moore and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This candid memoir of addiction and recovery shares an intimate chronicle of life from Midwestern childhood to NYC's drug-fueled underground. Patrick Moore's account of life as a crystal meth addict combines heartbreaking honesty with rare insight and surprising humor. It chronicles a twenty-year trip stretching from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God. Along the way, there are acid trips at the V.F.W., Dexetrim study halls, teeth-grinding nights of dancing and anonymous sex in New York City's hottest eighties clubs. He takes pictures of Andy Warhol, loses friends and lovers, and navigates a Byzantine underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers, and colorful characters as intense as the drug itself. Through Patrick's vivid retelling, you'll meet Lee, the glamorous bad boy with a taste for danger; Tony, the tweaker who likes to remove his eyebrows; Ding-Dong, the Depends-wearing, nearly blind housemate; Hisako, the artist and squatter with a fondness for hot plate cooking; "Mother" Judy, the tough, butch rehab counselor who takes no prisoners, and countless others on the road from crystal meth hell to eventual sobriety.