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Barney : Grove Press and Barney Rosset : America's maverick publisher and his battle against censorship /

Title

Barney : Grove Press and Barney Rosset : America's maverick publisher and his battle against censorship / Michael Rosenthal.

Author

Rosenthal, Michael, 1937-

Publication

New York : Arcade Publishing, [2017]
©2017

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Description

199 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

"An incisive, compulsively readable biography of the man the Guardian called "the most influential avant-garde publisher of the twentieth century." An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from the constraints of Puritanism. As the head of Grove Press, he single-handedly broke down the laws against obscenity, changing forever the nature of writing and publishing in this country. He brought to the reading public the European avant-garde, among them Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, radical political and literary voices such as Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and Jack Kerouac, steamy Victorian erotica, and banned writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and William Burroughs. His almost mystical belief in the sacrosanct nature of the First Amendment essentially demarcates the before and after of American publishing. Barney explores how Grove's landmark legal victories freed publishers to print what they wanted, and it traces Grove's central role in the countercultural ferment of the sixties and early seventies. Drawing on the Rosset papers at Columbia University and personal interviews with former Grove Press staff members, friends, and wives, it tells the fascinating story of this feisty, abrasive, visionary, and principled cultural revolutionary--a modern "Huckleberry Finn" according to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe--who altered the reading habits of a nation"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199).

Call Number

Z473.G74

ISBN

9781628726503
1628726504

LCCN

2016052307

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library