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Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius
by Edward de Grazia
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0094709505
- ISBN 13
- 9780094709508
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About This Item
Presumably first edition (UK).
xiv, 814 p.; 25 cm. Contains Endnotes (pp. 691-771), Select Bibliography (pp. 773-781) and Index (pp. 783-809).
Hefty white hardcover with gilt decoration to front cover and black cloth spine with gilt lettering, shows very minor edgwear, otherwise Fine. Glossy, pictorial dust jacket, shows some shelfwear, including, but not limited to, a small closed tear to the bottom right corner of front cover and a severe crease to rear flap, otherwise Very Good.
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From dust jacket:
Only in our own time have writers and other artists been free to write, sing, and depict what they want. Girls Lean Back Everywhere shows how writers, artists, and their legal defenders achieved this precarious freedom by defeating, if only for the time being, their equally irrepressible antagonists. Girls Lean Back Everywhere is the story of how the arts in America finally came to be protected under the First Amendment, thanks to the stubborn resolve of a few artists, publishers, and exhibitors, together with the efforts of a handful of lawyers and the simple courage and moral brilliance of Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. But this book does far more than trace the triumph of a great legal principle. It is also a vivid portrait, told often in their own voices, of those remarkable twentieth-century artists who defied their powerful opponents and courageously insisted on their absolute right to free expression. Edward de Grazia has crafted an extraordinary chronicle of the battles fought and won in our century on behalf of free expression. In showing how this struggle affected the careers of such artists as Joyce, Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Lenny Bruce, and, in our own decade, Robert Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and others, de Grazia demonstrates the enormous price that these artists and our culture paid for their victories—the misery, the rejection, the energies wasted, the work not done. By the 1960s it had become clear that such writers as Joyce, Lawrence, Henry Miller, and William Burroughs were here to stay and that the Warren Court, led by Justice Brennan, was wise enough to ratify what the majority of Americans clearly wanted. But as de Grazia also shows in this brilliant book, the hand of the censor has not lost its cunning. As forms of expression undreamed of by the founding fathers approach—as art always will—the limits of public tolerance, the great achievement of Justice Brennan and the Warren Court will increasingly be challenged. The artistic freedom that our generation enjoys may prove to be only an interlude in the unending struggle between art and the impulse to suppress it. Girls Lean Back Everywhere is a landmark account of a historic and continuing struggle of the human spirit.
After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, EDWARD DE GRAZIA practiced communications and First Amendment law in Washington, D.C. He has been responsible for freeing from censorship Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, and the Swedish film I Am Curious—Yellow. He has taught at Georgetown University Law School and is a member of the founding faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) in Manhattan. De Grazia is the author of several plays and two previous books, Censorship Landmarks and Banned Films: Movies, Censors and the First Amendment. He is a member of PEN American Center's Freedom to Write Committee and a governor of the Law and Humanities Institute. He lives in Greenwich Village.
"The book is unquestionably the best yet written on the endlessly fascinating topic of obscenity law. From the censorship in England of Emile Zola to Jesse Helms's effort at suppression a century later, the book is riveting." — Floyd Abrams, Constitutional lawyer, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
"Girls Lean Back Eveywhere is a wonderful, funny, sad and brilliantly written book on American culture, mores and politics. The characters and times jump off the pages, a definitive book about both the strength and absurdities of the American legal system." — Martin Garbus, First Amendment lawyer, Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz
"Marvelous; a thoughtful, comprehensive and insightful analysis of our society's struggle toward maturity, wisdom and tolerance. It captures the spirit of the judicial decisions, the bitter controversies, and the extraordinary characters whose lives are intertwined with the evolution of our legal and cultural mores. It is an important and exciting contribution." — Geoffrey K. Stone, Constitutional scholar and Dean, University of Chicago Law School
NORMAN MAILER
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
THOMAS MANN EDMUND WILSON
VIRGINIA WOOLF KAREN FINLEY
JANE HEAP WILLIAM BURROUGHS
2 LIVE CREW D. H. LAWRENCE
MARGARET ANDERSON RADCLYFFE HALL
JAMES JOYCE ALLEN GINSBERG
AUBREY BEARDSLEY LENNY BRUCE
THEODORE DREISER HENRY MILLER
EMILE ZOLA HOLLY HUGHES
xiv, 814 p.; 25 cm. Contains Endnotes (pp. 691-771), Select Bibliography (pp. 773-781) and Index (pp. 783-809).
Hefty white hardcover with gilt decoration to front cover and black cloth spine with gilt lettering, shows very minor edgwear, otherwise Fine. Glossy, pictorial dust jacket, shows some shelfwear, including, but not limited to, a small closed tear to the bottom right corner of front cover and a severe crease to rear flap, otherwise Very Good.
NOTE: Due to large size and weight, extra shipping charges may be requested to be approved/declined before shipment/cancellation.
From dust jacket:
Only in our own time have writers and other artists been free to write, sing, and depict what they want. Girls Lean Back Everywhere shows how writers, artists, and their legal defenders achieved this precarious freedom by defeating, if only for the time being, their equally irrepressible antagonists. Girls Lean Back Everywhere is the story of how the arts in America finally came to be protected under the First Amendment, thanks to the stubborn resolve of a few artists, publishers, and exhibitors, together with the efforts of a handful of lawyers and the simple courage and moral brilliance of Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. But this book does far more than trace the triumph of a great legal principle. It is also a vivid portrait, told often in their own voices, of those remarkable twentieth-century artists who defied their powerful opponents and courageously insisted on their absolute right to free expression. Edward de Grazia has crafted an extraordinary chronicle of the battles fought and won in our century on behalf of free expression. In showing how this struggle affected the careers of such artists as Joyce, Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Lenny Bruce, and, in our own decade, Robert Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and others, de Grazia demonstrates the enormous price that these artists and our culture paid for their victories—the misery, the rejection, the energies wasted, the work not done. By the 1960s it had become clear that such writers as Joyce, Lawrence, Henry Miller, and William Burroughs were here to stay and that the Warren Court, led by Justice Brennan, was wise enough to ratify what the majority of Americans clearly wanted. But as de Grazia also shows in this brilliant book, the hand of the censor has not lost its cunning. As forms of expression undreamed of by the founding fathers approach—as art always will—the limits of public tolerance, the great achievement of Justice Brennan and the Warren Court will increasingly be challenged. The artistic freedom that our generation enjoys may prove to be only an interlude in the unending struggle between art and the impulse to suppress it. Girls Lean Back Everywhere is a landmark account of a historic and continuing struggle of the human spirit.
After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, EDWARD DE GRAZIA practiced communications and First Amendment law in Washington, D.C. He has been responsible for freeing from censorship Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, and the Swedish film I Am Curious—Yellow. He has taught at Georgetown University Law School and is a member of the founding faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) in Manhattan. De Grazia is the author of several plays and two previous books, Censorship Landmarks and Banned Films: Movies, Censors and the First Amendment. He is a member of PEN American Center's Freedom to Write Committee and a governor of the Law and Humanities Institute. He lives in Greenwich Village.
"The book is unquestionably the best yet written on the endlessly fascinating topic of obscenity law. From the censorship in England of Emile Zola to Jesse Helms's effort at suppression a century later, the book is riveting." — Floyd Abrams, Constitutional lawyer, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
"Girls Lean Back Eveywhere is a wonderful, funny, sad and brilliantly written book on American culture, mores and politics. The characters and times jump off the pages, a definitive book about both the strength and absurdities of the American legal system." — Martin Garbus, First Amendment lawyer, Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz
"Marvelous; a thoughtful, comprehensive and insightful analysis of our society's struggle toward maturity, wisdom and tolerance. It captures the spirit of the judicial decisions, the bitter controversies, and the extraordinary characters whose lives are intertwined with the evolution of our legal and cultural mores. It is an important and exciting contribution." — Geoffrey K. Stone, Constitutional scholar and Dean, University of Chicago Law School
NORMAN MAILER
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
THOMAS MANN EDMUND WILSON
VIRGINIA WOOLF KAREN FINLEY
JANE HEAP WILLIAM BURROUGHS
2 LIVE CREW D. H. LAWRENCE
MARGARET ANDERSON RADCLYFFE HALL
JAMES JOYCE ALLEN GINSBERG
AUBREY BEARDSLEY LENNY BRUCE
THEODORE DREISER HENRY MILLER
EMILE ZOLA HOLLY HUGHES
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- Title
- Girls Lean Back Everywhere
- Author
- Edward de Grazia
- Format/Binding
- Smyth-sewn hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0094709505
- ISBN 13
- 9780094709508
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 814
- Size
- 25
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- Censorship; United States; Obscenity Law; Law and literature; artists; freedom of expression; patriarchy; oppression; biography; pornography; artistic freedom; morality
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