{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-samantha-barbas-9780226658049","title":"The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade","description":"\u003cb\u003eA long-overdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer--a vital and contrary figure who both defended \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and fawned over J. Edgar Hoover.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of America's best-known liberal lawyers. The ACLU's general counsel for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against artistic censorship. He successfully defended \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e against obscenity charges, litigated groundbreaking reproductive rights cases, and supported the widespread expansion of protections for sexual expression, union organizing, and public speech. Yet Ernst was also a man of stark contradictions, waging a personal battle against Communism, defending an autocrat, and aligning himself with J. Edgar Hoover's inflammatory crusades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Arriving at a moment when issues of privacy, artistic freedom, and personal expression are freshly relevant, \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade\u003c\/i\u003e brings this singularly complex figure into a timely new light. As Samantha Barbas's eloquent and compelling biography makes ironically clear, Ernst both transformed free speech in America and inflicted damage to the cause of civil liberties. Drawing on Ernst's voluminous cache of publications and papers, Barbas follows the life of this singular idealist from his pugnacious early career to his legal triumphs of the 1930s and '40s and his later idiosyncratic zealotry. As she shows, today's challenges to free speech and the exercise of political power make Morris Ernst's battles as pertinent as ever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samantha Barbas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022665804X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226658049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.14w x 1.42d","brand":"Samantha Barbas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993771770111,"sku":"9780226658049","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a4d755d-3432-4cc2-a677-85d35522b400.jpg?v=1683326219","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-samantha-barbas-9780226658049","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}