[Tasl] 'Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning

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Morning Edition on NPR has the following piece:  

 Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning   Sept. 29 marks the beginning of the American Library Association's annual "Banned Books Week," a commemoration of all the books that have ever been removed from library shelves and classrooms. 

Politics, religion, sex, witchcraft — people give a lot of reasons for
wanting to ban books, says Judith Krug of the ALA, but most often the bannings are about fear.  "They're not afraid of the
book; they're afraid of the ideas," says Krug. "The materials that are challenged and banned say something about the human
condition."  Full story here.  
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95190615

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At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that
threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives 
forever, for the better.

~~Barack Obama