**Following is a list of books that John McCain's VP nominee, Sarah Palin, tried to have banned when she was mayor of Wasilla. This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board. Most are novels, some poetry, but the list also includes "Our Bodies, Ourselves," "The New Teenage Body Book" and Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. What's she got against the dictionary? Yikes!
What a great testament to McCain's judgement ... an anti-education, anti-science, anti-choice, nominee just a heartbeat away from the presidency!
Sample of the books from Palin's list to ban from that Alaskan library:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O¹Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women¹s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
**Sent to me by a friend.
UPDATE: It appears the list above might be an urban legend, although that information wasn't listed on Snopes.com when I checked. But to be fair to Gov. Palin I did a little research this morning and Michelle Malkin insists the list is bogus. However, I did find another list that does appear to have some validity! Let me know what YOU think!
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Don't agonize, organize ... that's my mantra. Change won't happen unless you work to make it happen! But sometimes even your best efforts don't provide the results you were looking for. Or sometimes a situation is just so completely outrageous that all you can do is say ... YIKES!
8 comments:
some list
some candidate that Palin...
To Kill a Mockingbird!
The Grapes of Wrath!
sarah palin is one dangerous and f****d up person. but america seems to be enamored by the fresh face - like they were the beer of 8 years ago
while i think her novelty act will get stale. she scares the shit out of me
Bad bad bad and scary. I saw this in an email too.
Yet people where I live think she is "so cool."
Sorry BAC, but this list was debunked a couple days ago (my wife knows practically every issue and rumor swirling around Palin and told me about this). The Harry Potter books on the list weren't even printed in the '90s when she was making the push to ban books.
As far as we know so far, there isn't a physical list, she was only pushing the head librarian on allowing her to ban books. The librarian said under no circumstances and Palin responded "Even if there were protests?" I hope a list comes out, but the more I hear, I think she was a bit too careful.
The truth is that there are no specific books on Palin's list. What she did was ask the Librarian what the process was to get books banned. The Librarian was aghast that anyone would even suggest such a thing and contacted a few people for support. When Palin found out she fired the her only to have to rehire her after a flurry of support for the Librarian.
That said, judging from Palin's politics and religious beliefs, I think most of the books on your list would have been targets. My wife's family belongs to an Assembly of God church and they do not allow any book or movie that contains witchcraft or wizardry, so all the Harry Potter books and The Wizard of Oz would be targets for sure.
Not to be funny, but I think it is ironic that there are none of the Jewish authors on the list that usually get banned, Like Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth. Leads me to believe that it is not truly about religion but control and power.
That list is even funnier!
I'd like to know how she could come up with ANY list. She obviously doesn't read.
Just that she wanted to ban books is enough, regardless of what actual books we're talking about.
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