Author: Rick Wartzman
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586483315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Describes how, after its publication in 1939 and then becoming the nation's best-selling book, a great conflict arose in Kern County, California, as a giant cotton grower and a determined librarian went head-to-head over the issue of censorship with public burnings of this masterpiece at center stage.