Barney Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship

“Illuminating, insightful, and informative—a piquant portrait of a renegade publisher.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
“The book effectively describes Rosset’s successful legal battles against censorship, and Rosenthal illustrates his subject’s publishing philosophy with his decision to publish Samuel Beckett and William Burroughs to American audiences.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“Michael Rosenthal, in taking a little-known and once-offensive publisher and turning insightful and witty attention to him, has bestowed a gift on readers everywhere.” —Columbia Magazine
 
“Barney Rosset was one of the most important American cultural figures of the twentieth century. This marvelous book brilliantly captures his and our struggles to allow all Americans to read, hear and see what the Constitution demands. He, with much turbulence, anxiety, and pain, nearly alone broke the barriers of censorship.” —Martin Garbus, Esq.
 
“Barney Rosset helped crack wide open the staid world of American publishing. Michael Rosenthal’s smart and candid biography beautifully captures the insatiable spirit of an oft unlovely but always intrepid literary daredevil.” —Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of History, Princeton University and author of Bob Dylan in America
 
“From the opening sentence of this marvelous, fleet, perfectly rendered portrait of Barney Rosset—the most important American book publisher of the twentieth century . . . Rosenthal
has created an elegant, clear-eyed, irresistibly readable account of the renegade publisher who tore himself, and the reading public, through the rusting gates of American Puritanism and censorship. In this book, Rosenthal has done his subject and his readers a superb service.” —Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker
 
“Michael Rosenthal sequences interesting anecdotes by the hundred, and he’s good at tracing the nonstop, edge-of-frenzy, but sharp-minded publishing decisions Barney made while partying and living fun-loving life to its fullest.” —Ed Sanders