Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2010-9-1 Pages: 209 I want to be intelligent. even if I do live in Boston. - Ananonymous Bostonian. 1929In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City. Neil Millerrelates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahminmoral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city inAmerica. forever linked with the infamous catchphrase Banned inBoston. Bankrolled by society's upper crust. the New England Watch and WardSociety acted as a quasi-vigilante police force and notoriousliterary censor for over eighty years. Often going over the headsof local authorities. it orchestrated the mass censorship of booksand plays. raided gambling dens and brothels. and utilized spies toentrap prostitutes and their patrons.Miller deftly traces the growth of the Watch and Ward. from itsformation in 1878 to its waning days in the 1950s. During ...