Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds      by Karolides, Nicholas J.

Those who believe that only nazis ban books should pay attention to the case of Harold O. Rugg, whose An Introduction to Problems of American Culture of 1931, which powerful individuals, corporations and organizations worked to suppress because Rugg questioned, among other things, whether the American system actually rewarded common people for their hard work. Karolides (English, U. of Wisconsin, River Falls) describes over 100 titles, including Milton's Areopagitica, Orwell's Animal Farm, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Sinclair's The Jungle, Machiavelli's The Prince, Paine's The Rights of Man and Mandela's The Struggle is My Life, along with works by Vonnegut, Jin, Mailer, Richard Wright and John Kenneth Galbraith. Karolides provides author biographies, summaries of contents and updated reports on censorship. This edition also includes new entries for such works as Soyinka's The Man Died, Xingjian's Bus Stop and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)