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“Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury’s most successful novel, tells the story of futuristic firemen who burn books, believing that printed words fill citizens with contradictory values and threatening ideas. Since its publication the book has been discussed as Bradbury’s most pointed attack on censorship, anti-intellectualism, mass culture, totalitarianism, and the McCarthyism of the 1950s.

"Fahrenheit 451," Bradbury’s most successful novel, tells the story of futuristic firemen who burn books, believing that printed words fill citizens with contradictory values and threatening ideas. Since its publication the book has been discussed as Bradbury’s most pointed attack on censorship, anti-intellectualism, mass culture, totalitarianism, and the McCarthyism of the 1950s.