Heywood Broun (1888–1939)
Auteur de Anthony Comstock, roundsman of the Lord
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Heywood Broun
It seems to me, 1925-1935 3 exemplaires
Artist Unknown 1 exemplaire
Letter: from Heywood Broun to Mrs. C. H. Franklin 1 exemplaire
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 1 exemplaire
Sherlock Holmes and the Pygmies 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Broun Jr., Heywood Campbell
- Date de naissance
- 1888-12-07
- Date de décès
- 1939-12-18
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven, Hawthorne, New York, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Professions
- journalist
columnist
sportswriter
editor - Relations
- Broun, Heywood Hale (son)
- Organisations
- Algonquin Round Table
New York Tribune
New York World
New York Post
Book-of-the-Month Club
The Newspaper Guild
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 21
- Membres
- 133
- Popularité
- #152,660
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 1
What you think of Anthony Comstock depends upon what you think of censorship. If you think smut is dangerous, as he did, then his extremes of behavior are perhaps understandable. And you have to consider the times he lived in. But this was a man who thought that scientific treatises on the propagation of marsupials were dangerously lubricious! That unclad mannikins menaced public morality! That smut dealers deserved death. There was never a dull moment when Comstock was official vice hound of the U.S. Post Office. He clashed with some interesting characters. The chapter on George Francis Train is especially entertaining.
Heywood Broun summed him up best when he said, "Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that." This is a book about censorship. The authors were against it. Good for them!… (plus d'informations)