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Temporarily out of stock
Title: People V. Ferlinghetti, The: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg’s Howl
Author: COLLINS RONALD/SKOVER DAVID
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 24/03/2019
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active
The People v. Ferlinghetti is the story of a rebellious poet, a revolutionary poem, an intrepid book publisher, and a bookseller unintimidated by federal or local officials. There is much color in that story: the bizarre twists of the trial, the swagger of the lead lawyer, the savvy of the young ACLU lawyer, and the surprise verdict of the Sunday school teachers who presided as judge. With a novelist’s flair, noted free speech authorities, Ronald K. L. Collins and David Skover tell the true story of an American maverick who refused to play it safe and who in the process gave staying power to freedom of the press in America. The People v. Ferlinghetti will be of interest to anyone interested the history of free speech in American and the history of the Beat poets.
ISBN: 9781538125892