Ocupation: Journalist
Life: December 20, 1902 - June 5, 1992
Birthday: December 20
Death: June 5
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
source: Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
topic: Book, Men, Effort, Banned Books, Purging, Censoring, Book Banning, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books