Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940

Jay A. Gertzman

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Introduction 1. Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs 2. Sex O'clock in America: Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why 3. Hardworking American Daddy: John Saxton Sumner and the New Society for the of Vice 4. Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights than the Bowery: Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation 5. Your Casanova Is Unmailable: Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of 7. Erotica 8. Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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