“Although Nazis were more famous for burning books, they also sold them. Destroying books and establishing bookstores were both a tacit acknowledgment of the same truth: books have power.” A brief history of the early 20th-century’s radical bookstores that provided refuge to America’s communists, fascists, and socialists.
Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles
In the first half of the twentieth century, radical bookstores took many forms and often served as part of larger, multichannel campaigns. Nazis, as well as Communists and Socialists, organized fes…
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