Books Are Weapons In The War of Ideas

A color poster featuring an illustration of Nazi's throwing books onto a fire. Rising up in the background is a giant book on the cover of which is a quote in black text: Books cannot be / killed by fire. / People die, but books never die. / No man and no force can put / thought in a concentration camp / forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that / embody man's eternal fight against / tyranny. In this war, we know, books / are weapons. / Franklin D. Roosevelt. Red text running across the bottom of the poster reads: BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS. The artwork is by Steve Broder. U.S. Government Printing Office 1942-O-487131. Division of Public Inquiry Office of War Information Poster No. 7.
MO 2005.13.20.7.1