Herbert N. Foerstel

Banned in the U.s.a.: a Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries (New Directions in Information Management) Herbert N. Foerstel

Foerstel analyzes eight major bookbanning incidents from 1976 through 1992, ranks the 50 most frequently challenged books in the 1990s and summarizes the challenges to them, traces First Amendment cases and precedents in bookbanning in schools and public libraries, and interviews frequently banned authors including Judy Blume, Robert Cormier, and Katherine Paterson.