Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship

by Michael Rosenthal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628726504
• ISBN13: 9781628726503
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"