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The book got a lot of attention and won some major prizes, because it was the time of the second Great Red Scare in the United States: anti-Communist witch-hunts, Senator McCarthy’s Congressional hearings, and, of course, book bans. But Bradbury’s ‘fireman’ hero secretly reads the books, learns the truth, and ends up working to preserve knowledge.