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Girls Lean Back Everywhere (1992) (edit title/settings)

The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius

by Edward De Grazia (Author) (edit contributors)

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The lawyer who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer censorship case before the Supreme Court chronicles the history of censorship in a country that guarantees free speech. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

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Introduction
1. Girls Lean Back Everywhere
2. Fuck Up, Love!
3. A Judicial Murder
4. A Sermon-on-the-Mount --of Venus
5. It's Such an Ugly Cemetery
6. L'Affaire Doubleday
7. Mencken's Lead Zeppelins
8. I Took a Girl Away from You Once
9. Dear Comrade Dreiser
10. The Knopfs 'Ratted' on John
11. Ungrateful England
12. Like a Phallus Made of Dough
13. She Always Called It 'It'
14. With Your Little Claws, Lolita
15. I'm Just Going to Feed Adolphe
16. Clear and Present Danger of What?
17. I Was Getting Hard-ons
18. El Hombre Invisible
19. Like a Piece of Lead with Wings on It
20. This was 'Star Wars'
21. Who Is His Parish Priest?
22. Because We Never Could Agree on a Definition
23. If All Mankind Minus One
24. The Ideas I Have Are Now Imprisoned Within Me
25. Any Writer Who Hasn't Jacked Off
26. Sex Life of a Cop
27. Playing the Role of Revolutionaries
28. A Magna Charta for Pornographers
29. Like the Towel-Boy in a Whorehouse
30. Just a Pro-Choice Kind of Gal
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
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Index

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  1. Edward De Grazia (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 039457611X
Page Count: 814

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