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The Nazi burning of the books in 1933 was one of the most infamous political spectacles of the twentieth century. In Berlin and all over Germany, Nazi officials and students organized elaborate parades and bonfires to mark their embrace of Hitler's new government. Book burning has since become a modern taboo and the symbol of any oppressive regime. As Heinrich Heine is often quoted: "Where one burns books, one will soon burn people." This original and provocative new work examines the impact of these fires, concentrating on the years between the Nazi outrages and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, a period in which book burning took hold of the popular imagination. Much more than simply the study of a single shocking event, Burning Books explores how deeply embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural and literary history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire. - Jacket flap.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
219

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Subjects
Book burning, History, Social History, Bücherverbrennung, Historia, Bokbål, Nationaal-socialisten, Bu#x1A;cherverbrennung, Boekverbrandingen, HISTORY, Censuur, Censorship

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Table of Contents

Introduction
The fear of books
The burning of books
The library of the burned books
To hell with culture
Swing, they're burning books
Beauty for ashes
Funeral pyres
Postscript : The path of cinders

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
098/.109
Library of Congress
Z659 .F57 2008, HN8-HN19CB3-CB481D90

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xix, 219 p., [8] p. of plates
Number of pages
219
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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OL16755170M
Internet Archive
burningbooks00fish_135
ISBN 10
0230553281
ISBN 13
9780230553286
LCCN
2008015881
OCLC/WorldCat
221665738
Library Thing
5190088
Goodreads
3842057

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