Charles Rembar: 3 books
The End of Obscenity
The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer & Fanny Hill by the Lawyer Who Defended Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Winner of the George Polk Award: Charles Rembar’s illuminating account of overturning America’s obscenity laws and protecting literature from censorship
Up until the 1960s, depending on your state of residence, your copy of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer might be seized by the US Postal...
by Charles Rembar
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Sixteen essays about the First Amendment from the man who changed the way America reads literature
A lawyer, literary agent, and author, Charles Rembar never stopped fighting against the puritanical laws that prevented Americans from consuming controversial art. These so-called anti-obscenity...
The Law of the Land
The Evolution of Our Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
National Book Award Finalist: “A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman” (The New Yorker).
What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America’s legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment?...