The Legal Exhibitionist: Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer

by Joel Silverman

Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration-what he called "exhibitionism"-to transcend his insecurities and his part-time legal training to become one of America's most famous lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce's Ulysses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683933354
• ISBN13: 9781683933359
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"