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DIVERSION: The Great Book Scare - United States artwork
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DIVERSION: The Great Book Scare - United States

The Global Good Podcast by Nicole Roberts

Oct 11, 202116:51Society & Culture

This week were headed to 1895 when America was deep into The Great Book Scare to meet Jessie Allan, a librarian in Omaha, Nebraska whose death from tuberculosis unwittingly fueled a book burning fire. Although tuberculos...

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