"The Last Temptation of Christ"
- Artist/Author/Producer: Kazantzakis, Nikos (1885-1957)
- Confronting Bodies: right-wing group of Long Beach
- Dates of action: 1962-65
- Location: Long Beach, California
- Description of the Art Work
- "The Last Temptation of Christ", trans., 1960
- Description of incident
- 1962 United States-California: The novel was a central point in a
three-year attack by right-wing groups in Long Beach against the city
public library and its librarian for stocking this title, along with
Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death" and the works of the poet
Langston Hughes.
- Results of incident
- 1965 United States-California: The attack was unsuccessful.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
