What Johnny Shouldn`t Read: Textbook Censorship in America

This provocative book offers a disturbing view of the ways in which special-interest groups influence the content of public school education. Focusing on recent lawsuits involving attempts to censor or ban textbooks and on other efforts by ultraliberal and ultraconservative groups to have sections of textbooks eliminated or rewritten, Joan DelFattore shows that political and economic forces of the right and left have heavy and often pernicious influence on American textbook publishers.