Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade

"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"--

About the author

Samantha Barbas is a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law and the author of five previous books, most recently Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine.

Summary

Samantha Barbas presents a long-overdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer—a vital and contrary figure who both defended Ulysses and fawned over J. Edgar Hoover.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Barbas, Barbas Samantha
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780226658049
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65804-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Biography: historical, political and military, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general