Cultural “erasure” silences or disappears marginalized communities, writes Jaeger, a scholar at the University of Maryland and a lifelong disabled person and activist for disability rights. “At this moment,” he writes, groups are “seeking to limit the gains made in recent years by women, BIPOC communities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, members of the Jewish faith, and disabled people.” Disinformation may be entirely invented or achieved by removing context. He provides chilling statistics on censorship and includes examples of self-censorship and neutrality claims. He presents these elements of information control as integrated cogs in a “governing through gaslighting” agenda. The author warns that control of information radically endangers freedom of expression, erasure excludes the marginalized, and, more starkly, they risk the very existence of our civil rights-based democracy. His primary focus is American public libraries, “an excellent barometer of the health of democracy and human rights in a country.” Behind this repression, he argues, are far-right fears of social change, visible via media. President Trump gets plenty of attention, but several chapters examine the ways that censorship and disinformation have functioned throughout history (in regard to women’s suffrage, vaccination, immigration, and more). Final chapters suggest strategies for librarians and their allies. He urgently appeals to other educational and cultural heritage institutions to see their common ground and work with libraries. A mass of material, presented with passionate sincerity, this indictment extensively documents what Jaeger sees as an appalling danger. “This will be a very long struggle,” he writes. “In the words of Mary Oliver, ‘Pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.’”