Bibliograph

The rise and fall of Morris Ernst, free speech renegade, Samantha Barbas

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The rise and fall of Morris Ernst, free speech renegade, Samantha Barbas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rise and fall of Morris Ernst, free speech renegade

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1232011507

Responsibility statement

Samantha Barbas

Summary

"Samantha Barbas delineates the life of famed lawyer and political advisor Morris Ernst, an early shaper of the American Civil Liberties Union. Today's fundamental challenges to free speech, expressive rights, and the exercise of political power make Ernst's battles to establish the cultural and legal norms of the twentieth century freshly interesting-particularly his role in framing the right to privacy. Barbas details Ernst's legendary free speech cases but also his manipulative ways and idiosyncratic and troubling political associations. A vital and conflicted man, Ernst was shaped strongly by the intersection of his legal ideas and the driving politics of his time"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Early years -- Williams -- New York -- Greenbaum, Wolff, and Ernst -- Adventures -- Free speech lawyer -- To the pure -- The sex side of life -- Sex wins in America -- Troubled times -- Freedom for the thought that we hate -- Ulysses -- The importance of being Ernst -- Defending the New Deal -- The champion of freedom -- The National Lawyers Guild -- Ernst vs. Hague -- Controversy in the ACLU -- The turning tide -- Ernst at his worst -- Desperate moves -- Utopia

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