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Anthony Comstock

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Noun1.Anthony Comstock - United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)
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In Sex Wars, Piercy threads together the lives of Woodhull, Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anthony Comstock -- the crusading moralist who hounded pornographers and suffragists with equal zeal -- as well as an invented character named Freydeh Leibowitz, a Jewish immigrant who makes a living manufacturing condoms in her kitchen.
RAISING VICTORIA by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
It might as well have, because the organization that became infamous under Anthony Comstock had the power to suppress whatever it didn't like.
Fanning the flames: the "golden age" of American book burning by Boston, Rob / The Humanist
William Calley, Alberto Fujimori, Adolf Eichmann, Emma Goldman, Aleister Crowley, Anthony Comstock, Patty Hearst, Ivan the Terrible, Pierre Laval, Timothy Leary, Huey Newton, Benito Mussolini, Judas Iscariot, Pope Urban VI, Robin Hood, Vidkun Quisling, Juan and Eva Peron, and Emiliano Zapata.
Great lives from history; notorious lives; 3v by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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