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Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ Shows Why Book Bans Are So Futile

GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

The authorities tried to suppress Ginsberg’s legendary verse. Instead, they ended up giving it—and the entire countercultural movement it helped spawn—a totem and rallying cry.

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