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Top 20 Books They Tried To Ban

Posted at 4:40PM Saturday 02 Mar 2013

In a world where no publicity is bad publicity, one would think Dominique Strauss-Kahn must know that trying to ban a book is the quickest way to get everyone talking about it. The rejection of a lawsuit to stop publication of Belle et Bête, a memoir by Strauss-Kahn's former lover Marcela Iacub, will no doubt have increased public appetite for a book that describes the former IMF chief as "half man, half pig". In that spirit, here are 20 books that they tried to ban.

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