Heywood Broun (1888–1939)
Autor von Anthony Comstock, roundsman of the Lord
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Broun Jr., Heywood Campbell
- Geburtstag
- 1888-12-07
- Todestag
- 1939-12-18
- Begräbnisort
- Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven, Hawthorne, New York, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- New York, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
- Berufe
- journalist
columnist
sportswriter
editor - Beziehungen
- Broun, Heywood Hale (son)
- Organisationen
- Algonquin Round Table
New York Tribune
New York World
New York Post
Book-of-the-Month Club
The Newspaper Guild
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- 3.5
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- 4
- ISBNs
- 26
What you think of Anthony Comstock depends upon what you think of censorship. If you think smut is dangerous, as he did, then his extremes of behavior are perhaps understandable. And you have to consider the times he lived in. But this was a man who thought that scientific treatises on the propagation of marsupials were dangerously lubricious! That unclad mannikins menaced public morality! That smut dealers deserved death. There was never a dull moment when Comstock was official vice hound of the U.S. Post Office. He clashed with some interesting characters. The chapter on George Francis Train is especially entertaining.
Heywood Broun summed him up best when he said, "Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that." This is a book about censorship. The authors were against it. Good for them!… (mehr)