On the Burning of Books: How Flames Fail to Destroy the Written Word by Kenneth Baker

On the Burning of Books: How Flames Fail to Destroy the Written Word

Kenneth Baker

256 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The burning of a book is recognizably powerful action--a fiery rejection of an ideology or a declaration of a text's moral offense. But, since the invention of the printing press in the sixteenth century, the act of burning a book has become mostl...

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