Book
The rise and fall of Morris Ernst, free speech renegade
University of Chicago Press
2021
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Abstract
"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"--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The rise and fall of Morris Ernst, free speech renegade
- Creators
- Samantha Barbas (Author)
- Resource Type
- Book
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780226658049; 022665804X
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; Chicago
- Format
- 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Number of pages
- 420 pages
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2021
- Date published
- 2021
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984847991102771
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