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Title The Henry Ford of literature : how one nearly forgotten 1920s publisher's "Little Blue Books" created an inexpensive mail-order information superhighway that paved the way for the sexual revolution, influenced the feminist and civil rights movements, and foreshadowed the age of information / Rolf Potts.

Imprint

[San Francisco, Calif. : McSweeney's, 2008]

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Haldeman-Julius Collection	070.5 H129Bp 2008	---	Lib Use Only

Description	p. 3-13, [52-53] : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Note	"Discussed: huckster visionaries, victims of the new era of mass culture, ebay hobbyists, the "red scare," teenage Oscar Wilde epiphanies, companionate marriages, painfully gloomy cowritten prairie novels."
	Includes "A sampling of self-help 'Little blue books'" / Sandra Allen, Sepi Alavi, & Chris Ying. (p. [52-53]).
	Caption title.
Subject	Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951.
	Little blue books.
Cover Title	Enemy of dignified bunk : Ernest [sic] Haldeman-Julius, his Little Blue Books, and the unlikely literary rise of Girard, Kansas
Added Title	Sampling of self-help "Little blue books."
In:	Believer v.6, no.7 (Sept. 2008)