Girls lean back everywhere : the law of obscenity and the assault on genius

De Grazia, the attorney who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer case before the Supreme Court, offers a narrative history of censorship—from the jailing of Emile Zola's English publisher through the suppression of Joyce's Ulysses , down to recent attempts to obstruct works by Miller, Burroughs, Nabokov, and Mapplethorpe. Chronicles the battles fought and won during the twentieth century in behalf of free expression.