Books by Gary D. Stark

Examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements. Stark shows that these men thought their their professional "calling" conferred upon them the right and responsibility to provide guidance for the German nation. Originally published in 1981.

Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors...