An entertaining collection of humorous essays and poems on the topic of “nonsenseorship” (censorship) in American life circa 1920 by sixteen different authors, including Wallace Irwin, Dorothy Parker, and Frank Swinnerton.
Caution: The introduction and the poem “Bootleg” (Section 13) each contain an insulting and dehumanizing anti-black term. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann
Chapters
1
We Have With Us Today by G. P. Putnam Read by Winnifred Assmann 10:15
2
Nonsenseorship by Heywood Broun Read by Carl Thomas 16:06
3
Literature and the Bastinado by Ben Hecht Read by Donald Warren 23:44
4
The Woman's Place by Ruth Hale Read by Winnifred Assmann 18:08
5
Owed to Volstead by Wallace Irwin Read by Tomas Peter 9:50
6
The Censorship of Thought by Robert Keable Read by Donald Warren 22:30
7
The Uninhibited Flapper by Helen Bullitt Lowry Read by kathasears 22:35
8
The Wowzer in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien Read by Donald Warren 17:14
9
Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker Read by Winnifred Assmann 5:08
10
Prohibition by Frank Swinnerton Read by Donald Warren 19:31
11
A Guess at Unwritten History by H. M. Tomlinson Read by Donald Warren 25:54
12
In Vino Demi-Tasse by Charles Hanson Towne Read by Beeswaxcandle 17:28
13
Bootleg by John V. A. Weaver Read by Doreen Marcotte 8:06
14
And the Playwright by Alexander Woollcott Read by marisad6 26:05
15
The Oracle That Always Says "No" by Clinton W. Gilbert Read by Carl Thomas 22:38
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