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t erupted over
the book in AlabamaVirginiaNew Mexicoand California as well as the de-
bates conducted in such publications as the PTA Magazine and the Newsletter
on Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. She discovered a
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Stephen J. Whitfield
“division . . . over whether to prepare adolescents for or to protect them from
adult disillusionment. . . . In the postwar period . . . recognition of the increas-
ing dissonance between American ideals and the realities of social experience
has become unavoidableand it is precisely this cultural dissonance that is
highlighted by Salinger’s novel.”
60 Its literary value got lost in the assertion
of family valuesin a campaign that must be classifed as reactionary. “Tey
say it describes reality” a parent in BoronCaliforniaannounced. “I say let’s
back up from reality. Let’s go backwards. Let’s go back to when we didn’t have
an immoral society.”
61 When so idyllic a state existed was not specifedbut
what is evident is the element of anti-intellectualism that the struggle against
permissiveness entailed. Here some of the parents were joined by Leonard
Hallthe school superinten [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

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