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A lively record of the Watch and Ward Contemporary society - New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. Restricted in Boston is the first-ever record of the Watch and Ward Contemporary society - once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An important watchdog business, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gaming and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of literature and plays. A spectacular romp through the Puritan City, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating tale of what sort of powerful strap of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "banned in Boston."
