title: Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century
author:  Rebecca Knuth 
description: "Knuth really brings her point home. Her provocative study is recommended for professional reading collections, library schools, and educated general readers interested in intellectual freedom." - <strong>Library Journal</strong><br /><br />"After summarily disposing in her first few pages of the longer history of desultory library destruction, she goes into detailed accounts of recent purposeful library depredations (those of the last three-score years or so) involving ideology-driven, regime-sponsored, systematic destruction of book collections intended to bring about the suppression of an entire populace, culture, and/or political will. Hers is a sobering story indeed.Although this is not a pleasant book to read, Knuth is a careful scholar and an engaging writer. Of the three recent books on this same general theme read by this reviewer, hers is easily the most thorough and compelling. It is comprehensively researched, fully documented, and well annotated." - <strong>Libraries &amp; Culture</strong><br /><br />"Knuth expertly straddles the disciplines of political history, political philosophy, sociology and of course, library and information science, to deliver a piece of work that would be of interest to students and scholars rooted in any of these aforementioned disciplines.[a] truly indispensable resource. Not only is <i>Libricide</i> indispenable, it is seminal." - <strong>Library Review</strong><br /><br />"Lurking behind the academic prose of this historical survey is a compelling, provocative analysis of <i>Libricide</i>, the systematic destruction or robbery of books and other cultural artifacts as part of an ideological campaign against a group or nation.Knuth's argument is powerfully drawn." - <strong>Publishers Weekly</strong><br /><br />"The subject matter and details presented in the case studies are both compelling on their own and skillfully presented in a narrative that is engaging and readable.<i>Libricide</i> is obviously an important phenomenon." - <strong>College &amp; Research Libraries</strong><br /><br />"Argues that government-authorized book-burning often precedes or accompanies genocide, since the obliteration of a people cannot be accomplished without destroying its printed history." - <strong>C&amp;RL News</strong><br /><br />"Knuth's study should be on every librarian's reading list." - <strong>American Libraries</strong>
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  # Ripped at the Seams
  
  
  NANCY KRULIK  
  Ann Sullivan
  
  
  SIMON PULSE  
  1230 Avenue of the Americas  
  New York, NY 10020
  
  
  If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book
  is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the
  publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment
  for this “stripped book.”
  
  
  **Ripped at the Seams**
  
  
  
  
  
  **How Not to Spend Your Senior Year**  
  BY CAMERON DOKEY
  
  
  **Royally Jacked**  
  BY NIKI BURNHAM
  
  
  **Ripped at the Seams**  
  BY NANCY KRULIK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book
  is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the
  publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment
  for this “stripped book.”
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real
  people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,
  places, and inciden