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Important, insightful and timely, LaRue's novella paints a picture of censorship in the past several decades, and where it's leading us as a society. He weaves politics, extremism, religion and book bans together into a powerful essay that is easy to access and digest. Librarians and other readers in the know will recognize some of the incidents in the news that LaRue is referring to, but the average reader also gets enough to grasp the concepts. The author doesn't overstay his welcome, and even if you don't have a background in libraries, this is an easy access point to censorship, library policy, and institutional challenges and hardships, and what the average citizen can do to fight anti-intellectualism and the attacks that they are faced with in this day and age.