
Ep. 22: The New Puritans
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
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The War on Impure Literature
The origins of the progressive project emerged from there. In it has a powerful moral crusade element to this political campaign. Ai was very successful at banning books, bautlarizing plays, getting dime store novels that were popular every everywhere else,. not in new england. And so this warning against impure literature soon became a powerful advertisement for it. P anded to day that their book was banned in boston, publishers wanted they couldsell it in the reo country. And it worked.
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