Political Censorship

In addition to the volume on The Gay Rights Movement reviewed in RR 2001/314, other volumes published in this innovative series are The Balkans and The Cold War. The Rise of the Global Economy and The Vietnam War are forthcoming. This book consists of a selection of articles and news items from the pages of The New York Times from 1900 to 1999 on political censorship. The first article is from January 1900, when Herr von Richthofen, formerly Police President of Berlin, prohibited the performance of Hermann Sudermann’s drama Sodom’s End. The theatre manager appealed to the Minister...