Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age

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Notes INTRODUCTIO N 1. For more on the Ginzburg decision, see Chapter X. 2. New York Times, Jan. 17 and April 23, 1968; Publishers' Weekly, July 12, 1965. 3. N. Y. Times, Sept, 23, 1967. 4. George P. Elliott, "Against Pornography," Harper's, CCXXX (March 1965), pp. 51-60; Ernest van den Haag, "The Case for Pornography is the Case for Censorship," Esquire, May 1967, pp. 134-35; Sidney Hook, "Pornography and the Censor," N.Y. Times Book Review, April 12, 1964; Pamela Hansford Johnson, "Who's To Blame When a Murderer Strikes?" Life, Aug. 12, 1966, pp. 62 ff (This idea is more fully developed in her book, On Iniquity, Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y., 1967); Norman Mailer, "A Note on Comparative Pornography," in Advertisements for Myself (Signet ed., N.Y., 1959), pp. 385-87; Norman Mailer, "On the Steps of the Pentagon," Harper's, March 1968, pp. 65, 129; NOTES FOR PAGES xiv-5 Howard Moody, "Towards a New Definition of Obscenity," Christianity and Crisis, XXIV (Jan. 25, 1965), pp. 284-88; Richard Schechner, "Pornography and the New Expression," Atlantic, Jan. 1967, pp. 74-78; Susan Sontag, "The Pornographic Imagination," Partisan Review, Spring 1967, pp. 181-212; George Steiner, "Night Words: High Pornography and Human Privacy," Encounter, Oct. 1965, reprinted in George Steiner, Language and Silence (N.Y., 1967), pp. 68-77; Gore Vidal, "On Pornography ," New York Review of Books, Mar. 31, 1966. 5. Cited in Horace Judson, "The Critic Between," Encounter, XXX (March 1968), pp. 59-60. CHAPTER I 1. The standard biography is Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech, Anthony Comstock, Roundsman of the Lord (N.Y., 1927). See also Charles G. Trumbull's highly sympathetic Anthony Comstock, Fighter (N.Y., 1913). 2. Margaret Anderson, ed., The Little Review Anthology (N.Y., 1953), p. 137· 3. Quoted in Anon. [Howard Potter], In Memoriam: Death of Charles Loring Brace [N.Y., 1890], p. 5. 4. [N.Y.] Children's Aid Society, Annual Report (1864), pp. 3, 4. On wartime unrest in Manhattan, see Br. Basil Leo Lee, F.S.C., Discontent in New York City, 1861-1865 ... (Washington, 1943); on the 1863 riot: David M. Barnes, The Draft Riots in New York, July 1863 (N.Y., 1863), esp. p. 6; Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (N.Y., 1928), Chaps. VII-VIII. A contemporary pamphlet, "The Bloody Week" (N.Y., July 1863) conveys something of the intense alarm the riots stirred among the established citizenry. 5. Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty YearS Work Among Them (N.Y., 1872), p. 30; [Anon.], The Volcano Under the City, by a Volunteer Special (N.Y., 1887), p. 316; William O. Stoddard, The Battle of New York, A Story for All Young People (N.Y., 1892), p. 201. 6. C. Howard Hopkins, History of the Y.M.C.A. in North America (N.Y., 1951), pp. 107, 384; Broun and Leech, Comstock, p. 18; New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Annual Report (1876), Act of Incorporation printed on the inside front cover (hereafter: N.Y. Vice Soc., A.R.). For discussions of the Protestant response to urban industrial America, a response of which the vice-society movement was but a small part, see William W. Sweet, The Story of Religion in America (rev. ed., N.Y., 1950), Chap. XXIII, "The Church and the Rise of the City"; Henry F. May, Protestant Churches and Industrial America (Octagon Ed., N.Y., 1963), Part III, Chap. 2, "The Face of the City"; and Winthrop S. Hudson, American Protestantism (Chicago, 1961), pp. 111-12. NOTES FOR PAGES 5-6 7. Broun and Leech, Comstock, p. 167. For a list of the vice-society officers in cities other than New York and Boston, see New England Watch and Ward Society, Annual Report, 1887-88 (1888), pp. 25-26, "Kindred Societies" (hereafter: W. & W. Soc., A.R.). 8. The seventeen incorporators are listed in the N.Y. Vice Soc., A.R. (1876) and many later reports. Biographical data was found on thirteen of them, as follows: Thatcher M. Adams, thirty-six years old in 1873, prominent New York City attorney, son of a New Hampshire minister; Cornelius R. Agnew, forty-three, of Huguenot and Scotch-Irish ancestry, son of a New York City tobacco merchant and shipper, professor of ophthalmology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Moses S. Beach, of Connecticut background, proprietor of the...