
Lenny Bruce committed his life to telling the truth - as he saw it. But the things he said infuriated those in power, which is why the authorities in the largest, most progressive cities in the USA tried relentlessly to put him in jail. To them, Lenny's words were anarchic and...

Lenny Bruce had the power to provoke laughter and delight from the repressed society of the early 1960s. But he also infuriated authorities; his blunt honesty caused him to be arrested and tried for obscenity in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. These trials made...