Item Detail
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25961
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18
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English
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"Smoot Smites Smut" : Apostle-Senator Reed Smoot's 1930 Campaign against Obscene Books
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Journal of Mormon History
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Winter 2014
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40
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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53-96
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The article looks at the political career of Republican Utah senator and Mormon Reed Smoot, focusing on his attempt to ban books that he found to be obscene. Besides his anti-obscenity campaign, Smoot is know for co-sponsoring the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, signed into law in 1930 by U.S. President Herbert Hoover. The author finishes by explaining how Mormon attitudes towards fiction have become more liberal since the time of Reed Smoot, and are generally on par with the remainder of society.
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