The Complete Maus, a decades old graphic novel to help children understand the horrible effects of the Holocaust was recently banned by a Tennessee School Board. That instead drove the book’s sales on Amazon. Dan Mangan had this information in CNBC. Here is an excerpt:

“Maus,” the decades-old graphic novel about the effects of the Holocaust on a family, has become an Amazon bestseller as part of a backlash to the news this week that it was banned by a Tennessee school board.

The McMinn County board says it took that step on Jan. 10 because of a handful of curse words and other aspects of “Maus” that it found upsetting, including “its depiction of violence and suicide.”

The board’s decision on the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Art Spiegelman, which had been a key part of McMinn’s eighth-grade curriculum, was unanimous.

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