In this Episode Paul Leggett and his son James discuss the recent Tennessee ban of the Pulitzer Prize Winning comic book MAUS. it depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodernist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, the British as fish, the French as frogs, and the Swedish as deer. Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. Paul discusses in length why band on Books are dangerous and his own experience with the McCarthy Era bans and communist scares.
