James 'Jamie' LaRue, the executive director of Garfield County Libraries, has written a book emphasizing the significance of intellectual freedom and the challenges of censorship. LaRue, who has extensive experience in the field, dedicates the book to readers and their right to read, as enshrined in the First Amendment.
I wish I didn't have so much experience with censorship issues. That's the first line of James 'Jamie' LaRue's new book. But even before the legendary Colorado librarian gets to that line in the opening chapter, he's dedicated the book 'to readers everywhere, whose freedom to read is enshrined in the First Amendment , if they can keep it.
' That's a callback to Ben Franklin's famous response regarding what sort of government was created by the Constitutional Convention: 'a democracy, if you can keep it.' LaRue is currently the executive director of Garfield County Libraries; he previously worked for 24 years with Douglas County Libraries and has headed the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Intellectual freedom is also a key to democracy — if you can keep it. There was a time not so long ago when banning books was considered backwards, ridiculous, undemocratic and therefore un-American. Even President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the sometimes-Coloradan known more for fishing than for reading in his downtime, defended freedom of speech
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