Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius

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National Geographic Books, Mar 2, 1993 - Political Science - 832 pages
De Grazia, the attorney who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer case before the Supreme Court, offers a narrative history of censorship—from the jailing of Emile Zola's English publisher through the suppression of Joyce's Ulysses, down to recent attempts to obstruct works by Miller, Burroughs, Nabokov, and Mapplethorpe.

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About the author (1993)

Edward de Grazia (1927–2013) was a defense attorney specializing in First Amendment rights, literary censorship, and cases of “obscenity.” De Grazia defended Grove Press v. Gerstein, William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, and the Swedish book I Am Curious (Yellow).

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