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Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| March 22, 2006 | Kaser, David | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century. By Rebecca Knuth. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 277 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-275-98088-X.

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book," wrote John Milton in his spirited essay "Areopagitica" in defense of press freedom some 360 years ago. He was perhaps the first writer to suggest a kinship between the destruction of books and the destruction of human beings. Although the single-word title of this monograph--Libricide--is a relatively recent coinage in the English language, dating back only about a century and a half, the phenomenon of intentional library destruction is of…

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