Banned In Boston

Author : Neil Miller
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807051115

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Banned in Boston by Neil Miller Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1410768082

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Banned in Boston by Lillian Kiernan Brown Pdf

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 : Daniel Kimmel,Deborah Hand-Cutler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736516507

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Banned in Boston by Daniel Kimmel,Deborah Hand-Cutler Pdf

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 : Lillian Eugenia Smith
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156856360

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Strange Fruit by Lillian Eugenia Smith Pdf

Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.

Author : David M. Powers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781630877613

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Damnable Heresy by David M. Powers Pdf

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 Robert Reardon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Theater
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025583415

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Banned in Boston: A Study of Theatrical Censorship in Boston from 1630 to 1950 by William Robert Reardon Pdf

Author : Dale Stinchcomb
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467105897

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Boston's Theater District by Dale Stinchcomb Pdf

Downtown Boston once thrived as a dazzling bohemia of burlesque halls, movie palaces, dime museums, and regal stages. By 1915, more than 20 theaters crowded along a quarter-mile stretch of lower Washington Street. The theater district gave birth to vaudeville and incubated some of America's most darling musicals and daring new dramas en route to Broadway. Theatergoers flocked to Tremont and Boylston Streets to watch the latest tryouts. Some productions flopped; others, like Oklahoma! and Paul Robeson's Othello, were runaway hits. Still others earned the coveted seal of disapproval, "Banned in Boston," from zealous city censors. Overrun by seedy venues in the 1970s, the Combat Zone, as it came to be known, seemed to justify old Puritan fears that the stage would corrupt public morals. Only in recent years has the district rebounded through careful restoration of storied playhouses like the Boston Opera House, the Majestic, and the Colonial--grand vestiges of a booming cultural corridor still vibrant today.

Author : Patrick Moore
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806538365

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Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir by Patrick Moore Pdf

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.

Author : Carmen Maria Machado
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771094514

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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Pdf

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope--haunted houses, erotica, bildungsroman--in which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations about the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, Star Trek and Disney villains, fairy tales, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Author : Ralph Edward McCoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Censorship
ISBN : UOM:39015008849435

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Banned in Boston by Ralph Edward McCoy Pdf

Author : William Pynchon,Michael W. Vella
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820417602

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The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption by William Pynchon,Michael W. Vella Pdf

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 : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026894933

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An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.

Author : Thomas Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UCSD:31822017329640

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New English Canaan of Thomas Morton by Thomas Morton Pdf

Author : Carolee Laine
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680774726

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Book Banning and Other Forms of Censorship by Carolee Laine Pdf

The flow of information through our modern digital world has led to many new issues and controversies. Book Banning and Other Forms of Censorshipexamines how and why schools, special-interest groups, and governments attempt to suppress information in print and online. Compelling text, well-chosen photographs, and extensive back matter give readers a clear look at these complex issues. Features include essential facts, a glossary, additional resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Terry Ann Knopf
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512601046

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The Golden Age of Boston Television by Terry Ann Knopf Pdf

There are some two hundred TV markets in the country, but only oneÑBoston, MassachusettsÑhosted a Golden Age of local programming. In this lively insider account, Terry Ann Knopf chronicles the development of Boston television, from its origins in the 1970s through its decline in the early 1990s. During TVÕs heyday, not only was Boston the nationÕs leader in locally produced news, programming, and public affairs, but it also became a model for other local stations around the country. It was a time of award-winning local newscasts, spirited talk shows, thought-provoking specials and documentaries, ambitious public service campaigns, and even originally produced TV films featuring Hollywood stars. Knopf also shows how this programming highlighted aspects of BostonÕs own history over two turbulent decades, including the treatment of highly charged issues of race, sex, and genderÑand the stationsÕ failure to challenge the Roman Catholic Church during its infamous sexual abuse scandal. Laced with personal insights and anecdotes, The Golden Age of Boston Television offers an intimate look at how BostonÕs television stations refracted the cityÕs culture in unique ways, while at the same time setting national standards for television creativity and excellence.