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Samuel Roth (1893 - July 3rd, 1974) was an American publisher and writer. He was the plaintiff in the landmark 1957 case Roth v.United States, [1] in which the United States Supreme Court redefined the constitutional test for determining which constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment.
One Book Called Ulysses finding that the book was not obscene. [115] Random House's founder Bennett Cerf chose to base this edition on a copy of the pirated Samuel Roth edition of 1929, which led it to reproduce many of that edition's errors. [118] [119] London: Bodley Head, 1936: The first edition printed and published in England.
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1594203367. Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503103-2. de Grazia, Edward (1992). Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius. New York: Random House. ISBN 0 394 57611 X.
The first book I ever loved obsessively... Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. But the love affair is over, now. The book I’d save from a burning building... Ulysses by James Joyce. The novel to end all ...
Ulysses S. Grant's standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White ...
Charles E. Merrill, the son of physician Dr. Charles Morton Merrill and Octavia (Wilson) Merrill, [2] was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida, where he spent his early childhood. In 1898 the family briefly moved to Knoxville, Tennessee but within the year returned to Florida to settle in Jacksonville .
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) Julia Dent Grant, wife of 18th president Ulysses S. Grant, initially wrote these memoirs as a "family volume," with no intention of ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...