The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade

by Samantha Barbas

A long-overdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer--a vital and contrary figure who both defended Ulysses and fawned over J. Edgar Hoover.

In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of America's best-known liberal lawyers. The ACLU's general counsel for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against artistic censorship. He successfully defended Ulysses against obscenity charges, litigated groundbreaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022665804X
• ISBN13: 9780226658049
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"