Ray Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of post-industrial society. The novel brought its author worldwide fame.

Bradbury's 2007 statement that Fahrenheit 451 was misunderstood was sensational. This book isn't about government censorship; it's about how television is ruining the bookstore experience.

In the early 1950s, most Americans had never seen a television, but Bradbury predicted a new era of freedom, prosperity, and entertainment, when the desire for happiness, coupled with political correctness, would lead to the banning of books.

'Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it... White people don't like Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn that, too. Someone wrote a book about how smoking causes lung cancer. The tobacco industry is panicking. Burn that book.

...a book is a loaded gun in your neighbor's house. Burn it! Unload the gun!'