Girls Lean Back Everywhere

De Grazia, the attorney who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer case before the Supreme Court, offers a narrative history of censorship—from the jailing of Emile Zola's English publisher through the suppression of Joyce's Ulysses, down to recent attempts to obstruct works by Miller, Burroughs, Nabokov, and Mapplethorpe."A thoughtful, comprehensive and insightful analysis of our society's struggle toward maturity, wisdom and tolerance. It captures the spirit of the judicial decisions, the bitter controversies, and the extraordinary characters whose lives are intertwined with the evolution of our legal and cultural mores." --Geoffrey R. Stone, Dean, University of Chicago Law SchoolEdward de Grazia (1927–2013) was a defense attorney specializing in First Amendment rights, literary censorship, and cases of “obscenity.” De Grazia defended Grove Press v. Gerstein, William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, and the Swedish book I Am Curious (Yellow).