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A energetic history of the Watch and Ward Society–New England’s notorious literary censor for over eighty years.
Banned in Boston is the primary-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society–once Boston’s unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society’s higher crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays. A spectacular romp throughout the Puritan Town, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of the way a formidable band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston essentially the most straitlaced Town in The usa, eternally linked with the infamous catchphrase “banned in Boston.”