When Ronald Reagan first came into office, all of the US university libraries were sent federal orders to report all students checking out The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. At the University of Washington all bachelor degree students are required to take a certain amount of units in courses outside of their major. In 1981 one of my first courses at UW was in Political Science. I bought my copy of The Communist Manifesto in order to do the required reading in that class, and to keep from being reported to the FBI.