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List of Illustrations BETWEEN PAGES 98 AND 99 1. Anthony Comstock 2. Comstock's Commission and the seal of the New York Vice Society 3. Two cartoons of Comstock 4. J. Franklin Chase, Morris K. Jesup, and the Reverand Philip Yarrow 5. Senator Reed Smoot 6. William Allen White J. John Sumner burning confiscated literature 8. Judge John Ford g. The record book of the New York Vice Society 10. Hamlin Carland 11. Elinor Clyn 12. James Branch Cabell 13. H. L. Mencken and Ceorge Jean Nathan 14. Theodore Dreiser 15. Una Lady Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall 16. A cartoon satirizing the "Clean Books" Bill 17. H. L. Mencken during the "Hatrack" controversy ix x PURITY IN PRINT 18. Upton Sinclair sells the "fig leaf' edition of Oil 19. The Little Review 20. The American Mercury 21. The Ford Hall Forum "frolic" 22. Horace Liveright 23. Alfred Knopf 24. Donald Friede 25. Morris L. Ernst 26. Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, and John Quinn BETWEEN PAGES 206 AND 207 27. Senator Bronson M. Cutting 28. A cartoon, "Chronic appendicitis, of course!" 29. The Nazi book-burning 30. Roy Cohn, G. David Schine, and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy 31. Ruth Brown 32. Charles Rembar 33. Charles H. Keating, Jr. 34. The Summer 1962 issue of Eros 35. Ralph Ginzburg 36. The Supreme Court in 1970 37. Catherine A. MacKinnon 38. Nico Jacobellis ...

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