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Polk County Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said the district will review 16 books that a stakeholder group, County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF), claims violate two Florida laws.
As Oscar Wilde once said in The Picture of Dorian Gray, "the books the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
Which books inspire the most ire, and why?
The move to censor books in school is less about suppressing actual violence, bad language, or otherwise scary and objectionable behavior, than it is about keeping us from looking at those things.
The graphic novel 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman was banned by a school board in Tennessee. Maro Siranosians/AFP/Getty Images Classic books and contemporary