{"product_id":"bookleggers-and-smuthounds-9780812217988","title":"Bookleggers and Smuthounds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis first examination of the trade in erotica during the 1920s and '30s provides an understanding of the evolution of both obscenity law and sexual explicitness in literature, and raises fascinating questions about moral control, idealism, and the marketplace in ways that continue to resonate today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gertzman's book is important; it opens a new topic of study and establishes groundwork for debate.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A major work of scholarship.\" * \u003ci\u003eAB Bookman's\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A detailed and fascinating study.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Library\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent study deserves to be ready by any lawyer and jurist. . . . It raises profound questions, which still haunt the legal scene.\" * \u003ci\u003eNew York Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Sex O'clock in America\": Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Hardworking American Daddy\": John Saxton Sumner and the New Society for the of Vice\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights than the Bowery\": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Your Casanova Is Unmailable'': Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of\u003cbr\u003e 7. Erotica\u003cbr\u003e 8. Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405692936535,"sku":"9780812217988","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812217988.jpg?v=1730493298","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bookleggers-and-smuthounds-9780812217988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}