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Samantha Barbas

Samantha Barbas is the author of The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade (Univ. of Chicago Press). Barbas is a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law and the author of five previous books, most recently Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine.

How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

Samantha Barbas

How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

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