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#BookClub: Burning books and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
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#BookClub: Burning books and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

BOOK CLUB: During a summer of pulling down statues and renaming buildings and streets, could the next step be the symbolic burning of books? Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a book about the burning of books in a future society that no longer reads them. Professor Dennis Hayes explores the construction and vision of the book as well as what it may or may not contribute to our understanding of the present.

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